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1. "Instinct is the direct connection with truth."

Laurette Taylor

2. "Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies."

Anon.

3. "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

Stephen King

Quotations about: Trust

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

Edith Sitwell, "Taken Care Of"

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

Mel Brooks

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

6. "The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Time and Passing

7. "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

Aleksandr Pushkin

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

8. "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth."

Henry Wotton

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

9. "I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them."

Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead"

Quotations about: Love

10. "It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors."

Peter Mere Latham

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

11. "Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal."

Max Heindel

12. "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty."

Arthur Ponsonby

Quotations about: Peace and War

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

Galileo Galilei

14. "A truth spoken before its time is dangerous."

Greek proverb

15. "The truth is like ice water, it shocks you when it hits you, but no one's ever died from it."

Anon.

16. "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

17. "Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."

Horace Mann

Quotations about: Success and Fame

18. "Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

19. "Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."

Ashleigh Brilliant

20. "We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

Eric Hoffer

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21. "Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

22. "There are two types of people who can tell you the truth about yourself: an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."

Antisthenes

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

23. "Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive."

Roy Campbell

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

24. "Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second."

Jean-Luc Godard

Quotations about: Science and Technology

25. "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

Lillian Hellman, "The Little Foxes"

26. "Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."

John Osborne, "The Hotel in Amsterdam"

Quotations about: Trust

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

Herbert Agar

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

28. "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."

William James, "Varieties of Religious Experience"

29. "After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history."

proverb

30. "There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."

Thomas Sowell

31. "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."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Art and Culture

32. "A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth."

Sir John Alexander Macdonald

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

33. "There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth."

Anon.

34. "In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."

Stephen Leacock

Quotations about: Various

35. "All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw

36. "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Norman Mailer

Quotations about: Various

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

Charles Péguy

38. "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances."

Albert Schweitzer

39. "My speciality is being right when other people are wrong."

George Bernard Shaw, "You Never Can Tell"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

40. "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

George Santayana, "Little Essays"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

41. "Truth exists; only lies are invented."

Georges Braque

42. "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Words"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

43. "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

44. "It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."

Jerome K. Jerome

45. "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

Charles de Gaulle

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

46. "Time tries truth."

English proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

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

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

48. "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

49. "Facts are many, but the truth is one."

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Winston Churchill

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