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Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
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
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- 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
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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
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
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- 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 take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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