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1. "A good compliment is a truth, but presented in a favorable light."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

2. "Who says what he should, does not say what he thinks."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Various

3. "The truth lies where it should, but we are looking for it all the wrong places."

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4. "Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

Dandemis

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

5. "Humor is the same as truth, only faster."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

6. "Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

Anon.

Quotations about: Law and Crime

7. "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."

Philip Guedalla

Quotations about: Various

8. "The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."

Robert Bresson

9. "Hell is truth seen too late."

John Locke

10. "Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."

Anon.

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

11. "Tell the masses a lie often enough and for long enough, sooner or later they will all believe it."

Joseph Goebbels

12. "Lost illusions are truths discovered."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various -:- Reality and Imagination

13. "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana

Quotations about: History and Nations

14. "Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Quotations about: Justice

15. "Speak the truth but leave immediately after."

Slovenian proverb

16. "Error is to truth as sleep is to waking."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

17. "We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

18. "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

19. "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Aaron Levenstein

Quotations about: Various

20. "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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21. "And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to take part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

22. "Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Memory

23. "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears."

Rudyard Kipling

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

24. "It is a trait of fools to perceive the faults of others but not their own."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

25. "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Politics and Diplomacy

26. "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Rex Stout, "Death Of A Doxy"

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Various

27. "The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, "Journal"

28. "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Claud Cockburn

29. "Exactitude is not truth."

Henri Matisse

30. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

31. "Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

32. "Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. "

Louis-Ferdinand Céline , "Journey to the End of the Night"

33. "By doubting we come at truth."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Question and Problem

34. "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Umberto Eco

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Various

35. "What is really beautiful must always be true."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "Armance"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

36. "Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

37. "There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology

38. "Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

Horace Walpole, "Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795"

Quotations about: Justice

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Sign of Four"

Quotations about: Various

40. "I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."

Christopher Hampton, "The Philanthropist"

41. "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

Khalil Gibran, "Between Reality and Fantasy"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

42. "Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?"

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human

43. "Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

44. "A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."

Patrick Kavanagh, "Collected Prose"

45. "What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

46. "Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth."

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"

47. "Nobody dies of fatal truths these days: there are too many antidotes."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

48. "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

49. "You cannot have both truth and what you call civilization."

Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"

Quotations about: Various

50. "Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Spanish proverb

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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