Start a lie and a truth together, like hare and hound: the lie will run fast and smooth, and no man will ever turn it aside; but at the truth most hands will fling a stone, and so hinder it for sport's sake, if they can.
OuidaIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham GreeneThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph JoubertBut 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 ByronTruth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John MiltonLiberals 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 MillerSometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination.
Jules VerneFor great is truth, and shall prevail
Thomas BrooksTruth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald FordFor want of me the world's course will not fail:
When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
The truth is great, and shall prevail,
When none cares whether it prevail or not.
Coventry PatmoreThere is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move
Felicity KendallIt is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K JeromeThere is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustav FlaubertPeople used to say it was important that me and Goughy bowled well together, but the truth is there were many other good bowlers around who also contributed!
Andrew CaddickI don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth - even if it costs him his job
Samuel GoldwynTruth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur SchopenhauerTravesty of the truth [on reports he thinks people can't rise above their station]
Prince CharlesSilence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin DisraeliTruth uttered before its time is always dangerous
MenciusConvictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonI 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 NiebuhrI am not alone. I do not have to carry alone what in truth I could never carry alone.
Pope Benedict XVINever apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
Benjamin DisraeliThe opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels BohrNagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith SummerskillThe love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
Robertson DaviesIn fourscore years and four more, then we shall know the truth, but before then - silence.
Stan StevensThe 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 GreatMy 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 HollowayYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous HuxleyI speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more I grow older
MontaigneThe 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 ValeryA good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
Bruce DavisonMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand RussellUntaught the noble end of glorious truth, Bred to deceive even from their earliest youth
Anne IngramThe ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
Eliza FarnhamA man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
Henrik IbsenThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah ArendtWe should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
Christy TurlingtonHumanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone WeilIf someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.
Tim HenmanWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von BismarckFear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto EcoTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NovalisFor thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them
Orson WellesTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JuniorTo tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
Helena ChristensenFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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