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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
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
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
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If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
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
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
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
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
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
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- 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
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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
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
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
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
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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