Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

truth

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Justice is truth in action.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Exactitude is not truth.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Adversity is the first path to truth.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Science is but an image of the truth.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Truth comes out in wine.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is what works.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Tell the children the truth.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

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

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

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

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

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

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Justice is the truth in action.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Live truth instead of professing it.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The truth is lived, not taught.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

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

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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

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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Humility is truth.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.

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

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

The color of truth is gray.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.