The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
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 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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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