When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her though I know she lies (Sonnet 138)
William ShakespeareCynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian HellmanCinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Jean-Luc GodardThe dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart MillNow, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther KingTruth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
Taylor BranchThe folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us
Paul ValeryBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonMaterialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri-Frederic AmielAll truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel ButlerThe truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
Mary ClarkI told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
Paula JonesAdvertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas JeffersonIt is not telling the truth that makes politics seem negative, that makes people think all politicians do not tell the truth.
Michael HowardRespect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank HerbertDouble, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
Ronald ReaganThe 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 GreatA maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted in the memory, they nourish the will.
Joseph JoubertHope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred NobelI went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie ChaplinIf truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
Alan GorrieThe truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
Malcolm MuggeridgeIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia WoolfThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah ArendtWhen they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
Daniel BoorstinBut what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord ByronDoubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2
William ShakespeareA lie told often enough becomes truth
LeninBy means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth
Yukio MishimaLive truth instead of professing it.
Elbert HubbardIt is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
John LockeI 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 YeatsTruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
Emile ZolaYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous HuxleySo much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward DahlbergEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin CrispA liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
AesopThe truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
Lana TurnerWhat a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
Blaise PascalThe key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter AbelardAll a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.
Wilfred OwenThey 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 ClooneyWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von BismarckEvery communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'.
Mao Tse-TungMcGonagall planned an escape which went like this. 'One day I'm going to get out of here'.
(William McGonagall: The Truth at Last)
Spike MilliganBut now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto EcoAlways tell the truth — it's the easiest thing to remember.
David MametTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew ArnoldBeauty is truth, and truth is beauty
John KeatsEverything is contingent, and there is also chaos. [Is the truth of that statement contingent on the truth of chaos? The mind boggles]
Spalding Gray
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