25 Truth Quotes That Reveal Why Truth Is So Rare

The truth is whatever a person is to believe. When it is a lie but most people are to believe in their minds anything else is the lie. There have been con-artists throughout human existence. That people believe after they find out the truth the danger has been done. Case in point, one of the main con they will use is the word of God.

Jim Jones, used the word of God to become the people's temple God. All of Jones' followers believe that Jones was the gift of God. In their minds it was the truth. They follow him until their death. David Koresh used the same con to control his followers and ended in the same fate. As both were hiding behind the First Amendment.

The right to religion. When the government is to take action the two con-artists show how far their followers would follow. Some found out a little too late they had been brainwashed. Truth is a treasure often hidden beneath layers of perception, fear, and convenience.

In a world driven by personal interests and societal norms, embracing and speaking the truth has become increasingly rare. As many truth sayings remind us, honesty requires courage, integrity, and self-awareness. But why is truth so elusive, and what makes it such a rarity? Let’s explore it with the help of these inspirational quotes about truth of life.

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

– Lord Chesterfield

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

– Tad Williams

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

– Criss Jami

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

– Alexander Pope

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

– Mira Grant

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

– Josh Billings

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

– Unknown

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

– Otto von Bismarck

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

– Tennessee Williams

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

– Abraham Lincoln

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Powerful Quotes About Truth

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

– Leo Tolstoy

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

– Denis Diderot

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

– Adolf Hitler

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

– Thomas Jefferson

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

– Noel Coward

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

– Charles Spurgeon

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

– Stephen King

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

– Ann Landers

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

– Mark Twain

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

– Epictetus