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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
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
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
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 words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
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
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
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 is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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