Truth Quotes
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.
OshoOsho A thousand rumors, few true words.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine In war, the first casualty is truth.
AeschylusAeschylus However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
ChanakyaChanakya Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
Elon MuskElon Musk That we live in a post-truth society today, and that we don’t care, that we have lost empathy. We have stopped caring for each other in a way. We have stopped thinking long-term and sustainable. And that’s something that goes much deeper than just climate crisis deniers.
Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg