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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

- Watts, Alan W.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Mark Twain

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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Augustine, St.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Renard, Jules

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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