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Famous Quotations About Truth

Here are some famous quotations about truth. We have quotes made by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle plus others.

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'Tis strange-but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Churchill

I teach only the truth - but that shouldn't make you believe it.

Martin Henry Fischer

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out.

Oscar Wilde

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Oscar Wilde

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Arnold Bennett

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Sir Winston Churchill

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

Poetry is not the assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

T. S. Eliot

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplace, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Ammianus Marcellinus

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

Robert Half

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thoroughgoing disregard for it which we practice.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

George Bernard Shaw

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A Random Quotation

War makes rattling good history: but peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

You can find this one in the Famous Quotations about War category