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A half truth is a whole lie. -- Yiddish Proverb
A lie never lives to be old. --Sophocles
A person who lies cannot love.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. --Oscar Wilde
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
All great truths begin as blasphemies. --George Bernard Shaw
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. --Paul Simon
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
At every step, one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender to it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life clings otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service... Faith makes blessed: consequently, it lies. --Friedrich Nietzsche
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
--John Keats, "Ode On A Grecian Urn"
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. --Andre Gide
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. --Henry David Thoreau
But truth is just like time, it catches up, and it just keeps going. --Dar Williams
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. --Adolph Hitler
Don't lie if you don't have to. --Leo Szilard
Even if truth destroys the whole universe, still it is truth; stand by it. --Swami Vivekananda
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. --Aleister Crowley
Honesty is something you can't wear out. --Waylon Jennings
How can anyone be truly enlightened, when the truth is so poorly lit?
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can tell you're lying. Your lips are moving.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I appear to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. --Sir Isaac Newton
I never said it was possible. I only said it was true. --Charles Richet
I told the truth, Lord! How can I learn any moral lessons when you keep confusing me like this!" --Phillipe, "Ladyhawke"
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. --Simone de Beauvoir
I try to be honest - even at the cost of saying too much. --Bev
I'm not lying, I'm merely reshaping facts into a greater truth.
If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. --Alfred Alder
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. --B. Traven
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. --Zohar
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. --Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. --Paul Eldridge
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. --A. A. Hodge
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
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. --H. L. Mencken
lie: a very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Look for the truth where the dark things dwell. Look in the closet. Look under your bed. Nothing will hurt you. There is nothing to dread. Only the light that comes from within. Alone in the dark. Alone with your sins.
Love me enough to tell me the truth.
Love the true because it is also the beautiful. --Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
May God grant me the wisdom to discover the truth, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it happen.
May innocence and truth prevail. --"Toys"
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. --Sir Winston Churchill
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. --John Ruskin
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
One doesn't believe a liar even if he tells the truth. --Jewish Proverb
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. --Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. --Mark Twain
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Profound Truth differs from simple truth in that the negation of a simple truth is a simple falsehood, while the negation of a Profound Truth may be another Profound Truth. E.g. a button with "Life is just as simple as it seems" on one side and "Life is not as simple as it seems" on the other.
