Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas JeffersonMany of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view
Obi Wan KenobiIf truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
Alan GorrieIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Lily TomlinYou could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. [Then again you could say its due to medical and scientific improvement, and speak the truth]
Cyril ClarkeThey say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
George ClooneyConvictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil GibranFiction reveals truths that reality obscures
Jessamyn WestA lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert KiyosakiFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TacitusIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham GreeneReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisIf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Opening line, The Catcher in the Rye)
J D SalingerPure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri-Frederic AmielLiberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
Dennis MillerThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonThe opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels BohrThe best mind-altering drug is the truth.
Lily TomlinBy and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George CarlinI think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold NiebuhrAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur SchopenhauerSuch is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W Somerset MaughamThe truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all.
John Le CarreTruth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John MiltonScience is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method means it is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It's verifiable whether you like the results of a study, or you don't
Michael CrichtonAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawMusic makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.'
Jimi HendrixOnly the people involved, me and him, knew the truth. In those situatoins the real you comes out. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. You forgive and move on [on Sven's affair]
Nancy Dell'OlioEvery scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis AgassizI am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor StravinskyThe victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf HitlerThough all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavour of the soup.
BuddhaThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph JoubertWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris PasternakThe stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa CatherDon't let anybody fool you or tell you anything else, the truth is that composing is hard work!
Lou HarrisonOne truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
Henrik IbsenTruth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert GravesA lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord TennysonWe are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life.
Ethel RosenbergA man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
Claude RainsThe truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
Alfred AdlerThere is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move
Felicity KendallFame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell BoveeTruth exists; only lies are invented
Georges BraqueThe finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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