The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
A nation that is afraid to let its people
judge the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- 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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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