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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
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
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
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- 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
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
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
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
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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