The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
CiceroReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisTo be persuasive we must be belivable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Ed MurrowA platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley BaldwinThis suggestion that we're some kind of megalomaniacs is so far from the truth that it does annoy me.
Judy FinniganIt is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
A A HodgeComedy has to be based on truth.
Sid CaesarA liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
AesopTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NovalisDouble, 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 ReaganCynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian HellmanWhat a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.
Blaise PascalTime, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
Thomas HuxleyAll truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel ButlerTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward GibbonComedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher FryWe swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis DiderotJustice is truth in action.
Benjamin DisraeliAt every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
Howard DeanFew new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated
Isaiah BerlinHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas JeffersonThe truth is, you can't go on forever
Tony BlairThe best mind-altering drug is the truth.
Lily TomlinWe are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
Richard DawkinsThe truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.
Franziska Van AlmsickIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'Pride and Prejudice'
Jane AustenDo the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
Louisa May AlcottIt seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks AtkinsonYou will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai StevensonAlways tell the truth — it's the easiest thing to remember.
David MametAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo GalileiAn exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. (Sand and Farm)
Kahlil GibranYouth is truth
James MichenerLet us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill CosbyIn the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled
Paul EldridgeTruth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one
Konrad LorenzOne 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 PascalDo I say 'No, my client isn't gay' when I know that he is? Of course. Does telling the truth mater? If it's showbiz... rock 'n' roll... then absolutely not. Did Freddie Starr actually eat a hamster? No, he didn't.
Max CliffordThe 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 ValeryIf you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles GordonWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranThe 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 ClarkTruth 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 JuniorI have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara CartlandFear 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 EcoTruth exists; only lies are invented
Georges BraqueExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil GibranThe truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
Malcolm MuggeridgeAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous HuxleyPlato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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