41 Quotes About Avoiding the Truth

The truth is not always pleasant to hear. However, as you are always told as a child, honesty is the best policy. Here are some inspiring quotes about avoiding the truth that will encourage you to consider otherwise.

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.”

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”

“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”

“Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.”

“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”

“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

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

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

“The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.”

“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

Dealing with anger can be a difficult thing to contend with. Confront the truth of the situation and seek help. Be honest with yourself always and can overcome any difficulty in life.