In a world brimming with noise and rapid change, the power of truth stands as a guiding beacon, providing clarity and perspective. Insightful truth quotes have a unique ability to distill complex ideas into a few poignant words, offering wisdom that resonates across generations. Whether you're seeking inspiration, motivation, or a moment of contemplation, these carefully curated quotes reveal profound truths about life, love, and human nature. Dive into this collection of 72 insightful truth quotes, and let their wisdom illuminate your path and spark your own journey towards authenticity and understanding.
1. “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” - Andre Gide
2. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” - Mahatma Gandhi
3. “But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.” - Edmund Burke
4. “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” - Voltaire
5. “Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated” - Alan Watts
6. “I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.” - Natsuki Takaya
7. “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.” - William Faulkner
8. “It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.” - Cindy Jacobs
9. “For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.” - Marcus Aurelius
10. “I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.” - Flannery O'Connor
11. “Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.” - Richard Dawkins
12. “I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.” - Tite Kubo
13. “Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.” - Kurt Busiek
14. “I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.” - Sharon Creech
15. “Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.” - Simone Elkeles
16. “Only after you've done the exorcism, thenyou'll understand that ghost's also a species.” - Toba Beta
17. “People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed.” - Toba Beta
18. “No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.” - Ami McKay
19. “I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.” - Irvin D. Yalom
20. “I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.” - Dee White
21. “A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.” - Tyra Banks
22. “Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.” - Kingsley Amis
23. “I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I’d had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: “Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business… Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas”.” - Garrison Keillor
24. “Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching to see what would happen next, what would roll back to her, what would have gotten left behind.” - Beth Neff
25. “The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.” - Judith Lewis Herman
26. “This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.” - Holly Black
27. “Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.” - Anne Rice
28. “I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.” - Toba Beta
29. “News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.” - Jess Rothenberg
30. “We didn't try to force God's hand or do the "I just heard a sermon about David and Goliath so I need to quit my job right this second" leap of faith that's so popular in Christian circles. We took our time with the decision, like another guy in the Bible, named Jesus. He spent thirty years in obscurity before he started his adventure. Often, we're not willing to spend thirty minutes in preparation, never mind thirty years, especially when we come home from a conference and find our day jobs waiting for us on Monday morning. I'm not sure why Christians sometimes think the maturation of our own missions will be radically shorter than that of Jesus. But it happens and in the past I've certainly wanted to take wild, unplanned, possibly-not-inspired-by-God leaps of faith.” - Jonathan Acuff
31. “I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.” - Criss Jami
32. “What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the means for going home, you already have what you need to be happy and safe. You have never really left Home. However, if you don't believe you already have what you need to be happy and safe, it is as if it isn't true: If we don't know the ruby slippers will take us home, it's like not having them. The ego keeps us from seeing the truth about those ruby slippers- it keeps us from seeing the truth about life. Home is right here, right now, but we may not realize it and there for not experience Home, or Essence as much as we might.” - Gina Lake
33. “The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.” - Derek Landy
34. “Rhiannon's Law #14: There is a reason the truth hurts. When you cease to feel the sting, it means you've stopped caring. And damn, wouldn't that be a total fucking waste?” - J.A. Saare
35. “At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.” - Criss Jami
36. “Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.” - Jasper Fforde
37. “That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.” - David Foster Wallace
38. “Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.” - Ally Carter
39. “If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators” - Alyxandra Harvey
40. “A lie twice believed is self decieved” - Brandon Mull
41. “You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.” - Norton Juster
42. “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.” - George R.R. Martin
43. “When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth” - Lorna Seilstad
44. “The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.” - Neil Gaiman
45. “From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.” - Rae Carson
46. “A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.” - Criss Jami
47. “There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}” - Patrick Rothfuss
48. “High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.” - Mollie Marti
49. “I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment… is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul.” - Kathryn Vance-Perez
50. “Hell is truth seen too late.” - Thomas Hobbes
51. “It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.” - Steve Maraboli
52. “No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.” - Alethea Kontis
53. “I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.” - Sandra Chami Kassis
54. “Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who areof a certain nature; he who is not, not.” - Plato
55. “That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.” - Skyla Madi
56. “There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives.” - Michelle Hodkin
57. “I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.” - Ken Gire
58. “From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience.” - Upanishad
59. “...each day I sit down in purposeful concentration to write in a notebook, some sentences on a buried truth, an unnamed reality, things that happened but are denied. It is hard to describe the stillness it takes, the difficulty of this act. It requires an almost perfect concentration which I am trying to learn and there is no way to learn it that is spelled out anywhere or so I can understand it but I have a sense that it's completely simply, on the order of being able to sit still and keep your mind dead center in you without apology or fear. I squirm after some time but it ain't boredom, it's fear of what's possible, how much you can know if you can be quiet enough and simple enough. I move around, my mind wanders, I lose the ability to take words and roll them through my brain, move with them into their interiors, feel their colors, touch what's under them, where they come from long ago and way back. I get frightened seeing what's in my own mind if words get put to it. There's a light there, it's bright, it's wide, it could make you blind if you look direct into it and so I turn away, afraid; I get frightened and I run and the only way to run is to abandon the process altogether or compromise it beyond recognition. I think about Celine sitting with his shit, for instance; I don't know why he didn't run, he should've. It's a quality you have to have of being near mad and at the same time so quiet in your heart that you could pass for a spiritual warrior; you could probably break things with the power in your mind. You got to be able to stand it, because it's a powerful and disturbing light, not something easy and kind, it comes through your head to make its way onto the page and you get fucking scared so your mind runs away, it wanders, it gets distracted, it buckles, it deserts, it takes a Goddamn freight train if it can find one, it wants calming agents and sporifics, and you mask that you are betraying the brightest and the best light you will ever see, you are betraying the mind that can be host to it......Your mind does stupid tricks to mask that you are betraying something of grave importance. It wanders so you won't notice that you are deserting your own life, abandoning it to triviality and garbage, how you are too fucking afraid to use your own brain for what it's for, which is to be a host to the light, to use it, to focus it; let it shine and carry the burden of what is illuminated, everything buried there; the light's scarier than anything it shows, the pure, direct experience of it in you as if your mind ain't the vegetable thing it's generally conceived to be or the nightmare thing you know it to be but a capacity you barely imagined, real; overwhelming and real, pushing you out to the edge of ecstasy and knowing and then do you fall or do you jump or do you fly?” - Andrea Dworkin
60. “My greatest friend is truth.” - Beth Fantaskey
61. “...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...” - John Geddes
62. “...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...” - John Geddes
63. “I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.” - Frank Norris
64. “The truth hurts when you live a life of lies.” - Habeeb Akande
65. “And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the wise'. The reason for this is that it is not readily comprehended by one who holds a different view and has different learnings and inclinations, different involvements and instruction. It is clear from this statement that the conception of nibbāna in beyond logical reasoning, not because it is an Ultimate Reality transcending logic, but because logic or reason, being the 'slave of passions', makes it difficult for one who has a passion for an alien tradition to understand the conception of nibbāna.” - David J. Kalupahana
66. “The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.” - Laird Barron
67. “There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough.” - Eiry Nieves
68. “You're right. Your decietfulness far exceeds my modest attempts at dishonesty. I bow-down to your superior duplicity.” - Aleatha Romig
69. “Sometimes letting the truth out lets people heal, and sometimes it makes things worse. And you couldn't really know which, until you did it, and sometimes only later.” - Sara J. Henry
70. “Christ's humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity".~R. Alan Woods [2013]” - R. Alan Woods
71. “Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt othersRitual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.” - Laurie Matthew
72. “Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up!” - Mehmet Murat ildan
