Quotations about Truth by Famous People

God gives every human being an instinct to choose between right and wrong, between truth and repose. The path which leads to success is definitely path of truth. Read these quotations for better understanding of what the truth is?

• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran
• Truthfulness is the main element of character. -Brian Tracy
• Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth. -Mahatma Gandhi
• I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. – Oscar Wilde
• The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. – Alfred Adler
• Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. And even when he departs from nature, he must do it with the conviction that it is only to interpret her more fully. - Henri Matisse
• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -John Locke
• If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. – Abraham Lincoln
• The Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. – Pearl S. Buck
• Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth. – Oprah Winfrey
• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei
• A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. – Epictetus
• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. – Aesop
• Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. – George Braque