It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

19.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

20.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

27.

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

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

31.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

32.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

33.

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

Tom Bissell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

43.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

44.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

46.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

49.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.