In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
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
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price.
May He be so to every one of us.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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