63 Truthful Quotes For Inspiration

In a world overflowing with information and opinions, finding a sense of truth can often feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you're seeking clarity, inspiration, or a gentle reminder of what truly matters, truthful quotes have the unique power to resonate deeply within us. They capture the essence of honesty and wisdom, offering insights that can guide us through life's complexities. In this compilation, we've gathered 63 of the most poignant and enlightening truthful quotes to inspire you on your journey. Let their words resonate with you, providing clarity and motivation as you navigate the path ahead.

1. “He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.” - Cormac McCarthy

2. “...the heart is an organ of fire.” - Michael Ondaatje

3. “Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.” - Patricia Briggs

4. “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” - Voltaire

5. “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

6. “Die großen Leute verstehen nie etwas von selbst,und für die Kinder ist es zu anstrengend, ihnen immer und immer wieder erklären zu müssen.""As pessoas grandes nunca percebem nada sozinhas e uma criança acaba por se cansar de ter que estar sempre a explicar-lhes tudo.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

7. “Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.” - T.J. Forrester

8. “What you can't run away from, you have to face” - Lilith Saintcrow

9. “Once you want something, everything changes.” - Ally Condie

10. “Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?” - Ally Condie

11. “No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).” - J.M. Coetzee

12. “Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.” - Terry Pratchett

13. “One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.” - Siddhartha Mukherjee

14. “When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.” - Nick Hornby

15. “Nessuna passione cova più forte in petto all'uomo, del desiderio di far pensare gli altri a modo proprio. Nulla offusca tanto il cielo della sua felicità, nulla lo riempie tanto di furore, quanto il sapere che un altro tiene a vili cose di cui egli fa gran conto. Whigs e Tories, liberali e laburisti, per che cosa lottano - se non per il loro prestigio? Non l'amore della verità, ma la sete di dominio scaglia fazione contro fazione, e fa desiderare a una parrocchia la rovina di un'altra parrocchia. Ognuno pensa a serbare la pancia per i fichi e ad asservirsi l'avversario, piuttosto che al trionfo della verità e all'esaltazione della virtù.” - Virginia Woolf

16. “He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.” - Ken Kesey

17. “One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.” - Lemony Snicket

18. “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

19. “When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” - Cormac McCarthy

20. “Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.” - Isobelle Carmody

21. “Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting. "We ought to go to a real fishin' tank next year," Sam said finally. "It don't do to think about things like that too much. If she were here now I'd probably be crazy again in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?" A half-hour later, when they had gathered up the gear and were on the way to town, he answered his own question. "It ain't really, " he said. "Being crazy about a woman like her's always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones is what's ridiculous.” - Larry McMurtry

22. “I want people to see and hear the things I see and hear. And I want them to remember how it was when they were children. I don't want them to grow up entirely. Every adult is the creation of a child. My own signature, that identifying scrawl required by parcel postmen and valued by a handful of comic-book fans, that signature was devised by a thirteen-year-old boy who thought I'd want to seem important one day. I am stuck with it. My life is the result of that boy's dreams and limitations, and of the company that boy kept a long time ago, back when things could still happen for the first time.” - Chris Fuhrman

23. “WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. Or maybe balance, as Famine has said -- strength matched with temperance. No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen]” - Jackie Kessler

24. “The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.” - Lemony Snicket

25. “An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.” - Lemony Snicket

26. “It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.” - Lemony Snicket

27. “No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

28. “It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...” - Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

29. “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” - Socrates

30. “The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.” - Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman

31. “The higher you rise, the dirtier it gets.” - J.M. August

32. “All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.” - Vera Nazarian

33. “Never make the mistake of thinking that alcoholics are weak, because it took an incredible amount of internal strength and conviction in order for me to keep drinking despite the growing mountain of evidence against it.” - Mishka Shubaly

34. “It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.” - Black Elk

35. “Fact is just fiction with different storytellers” - Abby Slovin

36. “it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” - G.K. Chesterton

37. “Truth starts with truth and ends with truth.” - Santosh Kalwar

38. “Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend. :)” - Red Phoenix

39. “I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” - Coco J. Ginger

40. “The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.” - Frederick The Great

41. “An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does” - Lemony Snicket

42. “...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...” - John Geddes

43. “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” - Matt D. Miller

44. “I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.” - Larry McMurtry

45. “That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives A Fuck.” - David Wong

46. “There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…” - Dan Stevens

47. “In the lie of truth lies the truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “There are some who insist that Truth and therefore Reality is an either/or proposition, thereby deluding themselves as to what is Objectively True and Real".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

49. “The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.” - Richard Handler

50. “If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.” - thea_zara

51. “I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.” - Kaira Rouda

52. “The rite, the becoming-animal of the scapegoat clearly illustrates this: a first expiatory animal is sacrificed, but a second is driven away, sent out into the desert wilderness. In the signifying regime, the scapegoat represents a new form of increasing entropy in the system of signs: it is charged with everything that was "bad" in a given period, that is, everything that resisted signifying signs, everything that eluded the referral from sign to sign through the different circles; it also assumes everything that was unable to recharge the signifier as its center and carries off everything that spills beyond the outermost circle.” - Gilles Deleuze

53. “Truth inevitably pierces its target, the hearts of men".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

54. “...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...” - John Geddes

55. “Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change.” - Keela Sanders

56. “The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

57. “They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

58. “If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips."Are you dying for him?" she whispered."And his wife and child. Hush! Yes.""Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?""Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.” - Charles Dickens

59. “I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.” - CJ Roberts

60. “A lie, when believed, became the truth.” - Michelle M. Pillow

61. “Christ's humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity".~R. Alan Woods [2013]” - R. Alan Woods

62. “Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"- Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)” - Wu Cheng'en

63. “Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” - Edith Wharton