Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz 
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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.
- Khalil Gibran
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
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