Category: Truth quotes

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself

The truth may hurt for a little while but a lie hurts forever

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t expect others to read your mind, and don’t play games with their heads and hearts

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed

Give a man a truth and he will think for a day teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime

Truth comes, but we can’t hear it. How can we hear it when we have been programmed to fear it?

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it

A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it

A thousand times we die in one life. We crumble, break and tear apart until the layers of illusion are burned away and all that is left, is the truth of who and what we really are

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be