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
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 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
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
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
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 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
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
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 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
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
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
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
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
All perception of truth
is the detection of an analogy;
we reason from our hands to our head.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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