Favorite Quotations ~ Truth

Soft radiant watercolor symbolizing honesty and truth Truth invites courage and clears the path to deeper understanding. ✨ It is both gentle and unyielding, asking us to look inward with honesty and outward with integrity. May these words help you honor what is real and lasting.

Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth is from before creation. (Mai ka po mai ka oiaio) ~ Hawaiian Proverb

I don’t care if you print something nasty about me. If it’s true, fine. I don’t care. But just make sure it’s the truth. ~ Tom Cruise

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ Joan of Arc

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. ~ John F. Kennedy

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. ~ Clarence Darrow

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

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~ Emily Dickinson

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of the story. ~ Walter Cronkite

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth is steadfast. (O ka oiaio he onipaa noia) ~ Hawaiian Proverb

I don’t tell the truth anymore to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me. ~ Anais Nin

Truth is not far away; it is ever present. It is not something to be attained. Since not one of your steps leads away from it. ~ Dogen

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. ~ Bertrand Russell

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around a lake. ~ Wallace Stevens