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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 Holy Bible: King James Version
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Walden, or Life in the Woods
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
There are no facts, only interpretations.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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. And having no respect he ceases to love. The Brothers Karamazov
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. Tao Te Ching
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. History of Western Philosophy
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. A Game of Thrones
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.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Boredom: the desire for desires.
[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. A Game of Thrones
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. A Clash of Kings
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. A Confession
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The Left Hand of Darkness
You should not honor men more than truth.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.' The Picture of Dorian Gray
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.