There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustav FlaubertThere is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing; terrible, for He shall be Judge as well Saviour; and ye cannot face Him, ye cannot stand before Him, unless ye now give ear to His invitation
Henry MelvillPeople 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 Caddick'Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.'
Michael JacksonConvictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheTruth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
Taylor BranchChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham GreeneDeath is delightful. Death is dawn,
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.
Joaquin MillerThe great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L SayersOnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret FullerFiction reveals truths that reality obscures
Jessamyn WestThe truth is that if you have experienced some of those things directly, then you will not flinch or be deterred by many things.
Dorothy GilmanBe not so bigoted to any custom as to worship at the expense of truth
Johann Georg Von ZimmermannThe truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
Lana TurnerA man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
Henrik IbsenWhat 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 PascalNagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith SummerskillIf you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles GordonIf someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.
Tim HenmanA 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.
Pearl BuckNo human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William OslerThe best mind-altering drug is the truth.
Lily TomlinDefending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone De BeauvoirMy purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
George CusterIt was a fair swop rather than a fair cop, if truth be told.
Stan StevensThese attitudes, however distasteful, do persist - we need to confront that truth.
Andy DuncanPeace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas MertonIt 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 SchopenhauerA man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Sir Thomas BrowneTruth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Pearl BuckThe 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 MillThe pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence DarrowI speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more I grow older
MontaigneI can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George CanningPerhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace StevensThe first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917)
Hiram JohnsonSelf-truth is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPopular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart MillError is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected
John LockeThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonMany 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 GorrieIrrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors
Thomas HuxleyThe universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Albert PikeThe 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'll go on Oprah with Lindsay and do a live lie-detector test. That'll prove who's telling the truth. [Wanting to prove he slept with Lindsay Lohan]
Harry JuddI will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
Wayne BirminghamI have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai StevensonAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri-Frederic AmielAccuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
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