The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L SayersMy wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth
Ian HollowayTruth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner TruthIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia WoolfLife may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas MertonI 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.
W B YeatsWho never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose BierceDon't let anybody fool you or tell you anything else, the truth is that composing is hard work!
Lou HarrisonThis is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin BevanViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonTruth is immortal; error is mortal.
Mary Baker EddyA lie gets round the world before truth has got its boots on.
Alex BirtwistleThe truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Anthony RobbinsWe should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
Christy TurlingtonHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinThe object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas BabingtonThe road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander JablokovA man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
Henrik IbsenFrom principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts
Nathaniel HawthorneThe first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917)
Hiram JohnsonI told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
Paula JonesThe truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsIt is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur SchopenhauerFacts are the enemy of truth.
Don QuixoteYou 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 ClarkeCynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian HellmanThe reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim RohnFor Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouMost truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Ed MurrowA liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
AesopThe camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Harold EvansAll truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel ButlerMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand RussellI know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
TolstoySilence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin DisraeliConvictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich NietzscheOne 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.
Blaise PascalIn fourscore years and four more, then we shall know the truth, but before then - silence.
Stan StevensThere are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North WhiteheadWe swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis DiderotIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham GreeneThere is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move
Felicity KendallThe truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi MooreThe stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa CatherThe greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The GreatIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max PlanckChase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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