The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- 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
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
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
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 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
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
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
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 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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- 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
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
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
In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
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