Truth Quotes

In war, the first casualty is truth.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

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.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Hurt me with the truth. Don’t comfort me with a lie.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.