Truth Quotes

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry George

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare