The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.

Ann Landers

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

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

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Wendell Phillips

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

James Madison

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame de Stael

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Lawrence Durrell

The truth of the matter is that facts seldom prove the truth. Why? Because truth is inly found in a journey.

Harold J. Duarte bernhardt

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Jean Cocteau

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

George Bancroft

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!

Henry David Thoreau

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Joseph Alsop

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Rene Daumal

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

Truth might be unattainable, but honesty is not.

Stephen Watson

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

François R. Chateaubriand

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.

Arab Proverb

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

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

Dashiell Hammett

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Carolyn Wells

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

Jef I. Richards

Truth may walk through the world unarmed.

Bedouin Proverb

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Charles Simmons

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.

A. A. Hodge

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Mel Brooks

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Doug Gwyn

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier.

Nicholas I

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.

Michael J. Tucker

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Billy Wilder

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Robert Burton

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth.

Luis Munoz marin

How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

Michael Josephson

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

Jimmy Johnson

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Daniel Webster

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

James Otis

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.

Scott Allen

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

Exactitude is not truth.

Henri Matisse

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Minna Antrim

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

Byron Katie

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Georges Bernanos

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

Truth is a great flirt.

Franz Liszt

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Henry Wotton, Sr.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

John Lubbock

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth.

Ring Lardner

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony De Mello

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

I believe that in the end truth will conquer.

John Wycliffe

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Thomas Merton

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Rabindranath Tagore

With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact.

Hans Kasper

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

James Cone

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Walter Savage Landor

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Mark Twain

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Harrison Ford

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Sarah Bernhardt

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy

Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att.

Mary Worley Montagu

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Diana Ossana

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sharon Stone

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

Gerald Vann

'As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. It's such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, 'Well, if this is a truth that I know about that's not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?''.

Serj Tankian

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time!

Harold J. Duarte bernhardt

'Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.'

Michael Jackson

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth.

Louis Agassiz

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide

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.

Kahlil Gibran

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates

And we should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced at least once: And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

John F. Kennedy

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish proverb

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For 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 great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish proverb

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Proverb

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Proverb

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

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.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.

Martin Luther King Jr.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Victor Cousin

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

Bob Dylan

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can beWhen there's no help in truth!

Sophocles

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Ralph Marston

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Lao tzu

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes

Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to concieve them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper.

Rene Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

For aught that I could ever read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

The course of true love was never easy.

William Shakespeare

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare