"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
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Truth Quotes
A cozy truth quote can reset a whole afternoon. This collection gathers 529 truth quotes — some short enough for an Instagram caption or a bio, others long enough to keep you company with a cup of tea. People look up truth quotes when they want words for a text, a journal, a Pinterest pin, or a quiet pause between tasks. Copy one for a friend, save it to your Tiny Panda library, or pin the shareable cards. Tiny Panda Quotes is a gentle library, not a shouty feed. Wander, keep what stays with you, and come back whenever you need a little more truth in the day.
Short Truth quotes for captions, bios, and texts
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Benjamin Disraeli"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
Iris Murdoch
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Virginia Woolf"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
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
C. S. Lewis
"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
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
Simone de Beauvoir
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
Rene Descartes
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
Antisthenes"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
Denis Diderot
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Winston Churchill
"We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us."
Gore Vidal
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
Buddha"My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it."
Whitney Houston
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."
Andy Rooney
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
Winston Churchill"I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it."
Martin Henderson"Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast."
Tom Waits
"The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless."
John McCain"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts"John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that."
Tom Bodett
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