All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
