“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
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“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts
“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Source: Travels in Hawaii
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
Source: Collected Poems
Source: Poems
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
Source: Love Songs
“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.”
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
Source: Lanterns & Lances
“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
Source: Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources
“Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”
“So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”