“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
Edith Sitwell
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run, it’s the truth that prevails.”
Dalai Lama
“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Confucius
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
Thomas Sowell
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Winston Churchill
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”
1 Corinthians 13:6
“A lie is like a snowball, it starts off small and then grows and grows until a point where it gets so big it falls apart and then the truth is discovered.”
Chris Hughes
“Telling a truth is not only a matter of character but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias.”
M. K. Soni
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.”
Bill Copeland
“…that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and man, the Man Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.”
2 Timothy 23: 4-6
“But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him, God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4: 23,24
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“But truth itself does not change just because our point of view does. As we mature in our ability to perceive truth, truth itself remains fixed. Our duty is to conform all our thoughts to the truth.”
John MacArthur
“Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful, and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.”
Shel Silverstein
“In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat, and bribery have all been exhausted.”
Michael Musto
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
George Orwell
“… in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather create a sensation to make a point than to further the cause of truth.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me (the) truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain, children, all our lives.”
Albert Einstein
“We all quote scriptures reflecting that God’s ways are not man’s ways, but because of sin we rebel against that truth.”
Stephen Shortridge
“Yes, the truth may hurt but lies will become a crutch and will cripple you.”
Stephen T. Scott
“Who do you trust, who is telling the truth, how do you know? That is a question of epistemology. Ultimately, what is the truth? What is it, the question of “is-ness”? What is real ultimately, is a metaphysical question. Who is the truth is a theological question. How the truth relates to me and defines me is an anthropological question. And, how the truth commands me is an ethical question”
R. C. Sproul
“Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therein lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.”
Norman Geisler
“The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,”
Proverbs 3:3
“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”
Ann Landers
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Truth will ultimately prevail where pains (are) taken to bring it to light.”
George Washington
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
Denis Diderot
“Buy and do not sell- truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.”
Proverbs 23:22
“I believe that it is better, to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
H. L. Mencken
“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”
Andy Rooney
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
Aristotle
“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. IF we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 1 John 1:5-10
“We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. “
1 John 5:20
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
Elvis Presley
“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
“The truth will set you free, but first, it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full (in) evening.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill
“They must find it difficult … those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.”
Gerald Massey
“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
Martin Luther
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ( John 8:31,32)
Jesus
“A Christian life and worldview seek to establish the rules of thinking, the rules of determining how we know what is true because not everything that everybody says is true.”
R. C. Sproul
“The Bible plainly teaches that one of the characteristics of the end of this age is that people will develop a capacity for delusion rather than the truth.”
Billy Graham
“People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
Thomas Sowell
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Stephen King
“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
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
John F. Kennedy
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
Mahatma Gandhi
‘In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
Albert Einstein
“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
C. S. Lewis
“There’s an old saying that if a lie is told often enough, it becomes the truth. Actually, it doesn’t. What happens is that people simply start believing that it’s true.”
Bailey Jackson
“Since God is a God of truth (Deuteronomy 32: 4) and His Son Jesus Christ is The way, the truth, and the life (John 14: 6) it is not surprising that He hates all forms of untruths from black and white lies to false oaths and witnessing.”
Miriam Kinai
“I have carefully examined the evidence of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity, I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
Alexander Hamilton
“These are the things that you should do, speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate declares the Lord.:
Zechariah 8: 16,17
“If it is not right – do not do it; if it is not true – do not say it.” [Roman stoic Philosopher 121 – 180]
Marcus Aurelius
“Where I found (the) truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.”
Augustine
“…Let God be found true but every man a liar.”
Romans 3:4 NKJV
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
Thomas Mann
‘Tell the children the truth.’
Bob Marley
“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.”
Thomas Huxley
“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
Michael Jackson
“Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth.”
Eric Thomas
“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Aristotle
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
Flannery O’Connor
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
Chief Joseph
“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being.”
Psalm 51:6
“To reach that end goal you and I must be willing to be straightforward with one another. We must be willing and prepared to stare at ourselves in the mirror and speak the truth.”
Mark Devro
The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength.
Warren Wiersbe
“But if anyone has the worlds goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does Gods love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and truth.”
1 John 3:17-18
” Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you will know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are form God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. “
1 John4:1-6