There would be no need for lies if there were no drawbacks to truth. However, sometimes the truth can be painful. It gets wrapped in various linens to better suit the tailor, eventually gaining a fairytale status or being completely forgotten. Still, there’s also a bright side. Many people regard telling the truth as their most cherished value. And exactly this kind of people came up with truth quotes presented right here on this list.
But before we jump right in, why is it important to always tell the truth? Firstly, you'll remove the need to keep up with lies and, in turn, make your own life much easier. Secondly, it’s to do with respect, both for yourself and those around you. Being reliable and upfront with things in life will get you further than trying to sneak your way around by twisting facts to make them “technically true.” And this is what quotes about honesty are all about.
The quotes below might just shine a little bit of light onto you and help you move closer to understanding and choosing the way you want to proceed. From sayings by Mark Twain to lines by Eminem, you will surely find a motivating quote about the truth that will resonate with you.
So get out your lie detectors and dig into this collection of truth quotes. Vote for your favorites, and if you feel like some people would need to hear a moving saying or two from this list—make sure you share this article with them too.
#61
"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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#62
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X
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#63
"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." - Orson Scott Card
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#64
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
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#65

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Charles Spurgeon
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#66
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth." - Chanakya
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#67
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla
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#68
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." - Alan Watts
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#69
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau
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#70

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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#71
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." - Iris Murdoch
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#72
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - Jesus Christ
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#73
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
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#74
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats
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#75
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf
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#76
"Half a truth is often a great lie." - Benjamin Franklin
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#77
"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth." - Swami Vivekananda
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#78
"The first reaction to truth is hatred." - Tertullian
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#79
"Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away." - Ismail Haniyeh
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#80
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs." - Martin Luther
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