In a world full of opinions, half-truths, and noise, finding real truth feels more important than ever.
If you’re searching for inspiration, reassurance, or simply words that capture the power of honesty, these quotes about truth offer wisdom from literature, the Bible, and some of the world’s greatest thinkers.
Truth has the power to heal, reveal, and set us free — and these carefully selected quotes are here to guide you whenever you need clarity or courage.
Let’s dive in!
1984 quotes about truth
- 📖 Who controls the past controls the future
- 📖 The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears
- 📖 Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four
- 📖 In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act
- 📖 The best books are those that tell you what you know already
- 📖 Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else
- 📖 Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes
- 📖 Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously
- 📖 The choice for people lies between freedom and happiness
- 📖 Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think
- 📖 Sanity is not statistical
- 📖 If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself
- 📖 The object of torture is torture
- 📖 The heresy of heresies was common sense
- 📖 Until they become conscious they will never rebel
quotes about truth and lies
- 🤥 Truth does not mind being questioned but a lie does
- 🤥 A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes
- 🤥 Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons
- 🤥 The truth may hurt for a little while but a lie hurts forever
- 🤥 Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie
- 🤥 One lie is enough to question all truths
- 🤥 A half-truth is a whole lie
- 🤥 The truth always comes out, no matter how deep it’s buried
- 🤥 Lies are like scars on the soul
- 🤥 The truth is rarely pure and never simple
- 🤥 Every lie has a consequence
- 🤥 Truth fears no trial
- 🤥 Lies require constant maintenance
- 🤥 The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is you don’t have to remember what you said
- 🤥 Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets
bible quotes about truth
- 🙏 You will know the truth and the truth will set you free (John 8:32)
- 🙏 Sanctify them by the truth your word is truth (John 17:17)
- 🙏 The Lord detests lying lips but he delights in people who are trustworthy (Proverbs 12:22)
- 🙏 Speak the truth each to his neighbor (Zechariah 8:16)
- 🙏 Buy the truth and do not sell it (Proverbs 23:23)
- 🙏 The truth of the Lord endures forever (Psalm 117:2)
- 🙏 God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24)
- 🙏 Lead me in your truth and teach me (Psalm 25:5)
- 🙏 He who walks blamelessly speaks truth in his heart (Psalm 15:2)
- 🙏 Rejoices with the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6)
- 🙏 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6)
- 🙏 Teach me your way O Lord that I may walk in your truth (Psalm 86:11)
- 🙏 The truth shall be your shield and buckler (Psalm 91:4)
- 🙏 The Spirit of truth will guide you into all truth (John 16:13)
- 🙏 The sum of your word is truth (Psalm 119:160)
quotes about truth and honesty
- 💡 Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
- 💡 Honesty saves everyone’s time
- 💡 Being honest may not get you many friends but it will always get you the right ones
- 💡 Honesty is more than not lying it is truth-telling truth-speaking truth-living and truth-loving
- 💡 Without honesty there is no foundation for trust
- 💡 Honesty is a very expensive gift do not expect it from cheap people
- 💡 Speak with honesty think with sincerity and act with integrity
- 💡 The truth is always the strongest argument
- 💡 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips
- 💡 Honesty is the highest form of intimacy
- 💡 Trust starts with truth and ends with truth
- 💡 The truth will never damage a cause that is just
- 💡 Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable be honest anyway
- 💡 Honesty is telling the truth to others integrity is telling the truth to yourself
- 💡 Speak the truth even if your voice shakes
famous quotes about truth
- 🌟 Three things cannot be long hidden the sun the moon and the truth (Buddha)
- 🌟 If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything (Mark Twain)
- 🌟 In matters of truth the difference between success and failure is conviction (Winston Churchill)
- 🌟 The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable (James A. Garfield)
- 🌟 All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered (Galileo Galilei)
- 🌟 Truth is ever to be found in simplicity (Isaac Newton)
- 🌟 Truth is powerful and it prevails (Sojourner Truth)
- 🌟 Truth crushed to earth shall rise again (William Cullen Bryant)
- 🌟 The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde)
- 🌟 A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent (William Blake)
- 🌟 The truth will set you free but not until it is finished with you (David Foster Wallace)
- 🌟 There is no greatness where there is not simplicity goodness and truth (Leo Tolstoy)
- 🌟 Even if you are a minority of one the truth is the truth (Mahatma Gandhi)
- 🌟 The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it (Flannery O’Connor)
- 🌟 Error is not truth even when multiplied by the millions (Adrian Rogers)
1984 quotes about truth and lies
- 🔍 The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake
- 🔍 The past was erased the erasure was forgotten the lie became the truth
- 🔍 The reality of the situation was whatever the Party said it was
- 🔍 War is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength
- 🔍 The truth is whatever the Party says it is
- 🔍 If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever
- 🔍 The lie they told became reality
- 🔍 The object of power is power
- 🔍 To die hating them that was freedom
- 🔍 Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful
- 🔍 Thoughtcrime does not entail death thoughtcrime is death
- 🔍 To think is to rebel
- 🔍 If there was hope it lay in the proles
- 🔍 The heresy of heresies was common sense
- 🔍 He loved Big Brother
quotes about truth coming out
- 🕊 The truth always finds a way out
- 🕊 No matter how long it takes the truth will surface
- 🕊 You can’t bury the truth forever
- 🕊 Truth is like a lion set it free it will defend itself
- 🕊 Eventually every lie is revealed
- 🕊 The truth may be hidden but never destroyed
- 🕊 Every secret eventually sees the light
- 🕊 Time brings all things to light
- 🕊 The truth has legs it always stands up
- 🕊 Secrets are truths waiting to come out
- 🕊 Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence on truth
- 🕊 Truth breaks chains
- 🕊 Every concealed truth has its day
- 🕊 Truth reveals itself at the right moment
- 🕊 Sooner or later everything comes to light
quotes about truth and justice
- ⚖ Justice is truth in action
- ⚖ There is no justice without truth
- ⚖ Truth and justice are inseparable
- ⚖ Justice cannot exist without truth
- ⚖ Where there is no truth there can be no justice
- ⚖ Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot every man his due
- ⚖ The truth is heavy therefore few carry it
- ⚖ Justice without truth is tyranny
- ⚖ Truth is the cornerstone of justice
- ⚖ Truth and justice go hand in hand
- ⚖ Falsehood is the enemy of justice
- ⚖ The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice
- ⚖ Justice delayed is truth denied
- ⚖ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
- ⚖ A just cause gains strength from truth
short quotes about truth
- 🌞 Truth is beauty
- 🌞 Speak truth always
- 🌞 Truth prevails
- 🌞 Truth liberates
- 🌞 Truth heals
- 🌞 Truth is power
- 🌞 Truth stands alone
- 🌞 Truth sets free
- 🌞 Truth never dies
- 🌞 Truth illuminates
- 🌞 Truth defends
- 🌞 Truth uplifts
- 🌞 Truth survives
- 🌞 Truth conquers
- 🌞 Truth is eternal
Conclusion
Truth holds an unshakable place in every aspect of life, If in literature, faith, personal growth, or justice. These quotes serve as a powerful reminder that no matter how complex the world may seem, embracing truth leads to freedom, peace, and integrity.
