Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin
Stanton, July 18, 1864
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8:32
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you
never touch its coat-tails.
Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on
truth.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point
is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which
men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the
demand.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885), 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His
Sayings,' 1865
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a
truth.'
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin (1870 - 1924)
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting
on its shoes.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown
thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told
well is immortal.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), Adversus
Valentinianos
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more
interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your
tracks.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of
Four, 1890
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes
them servants of fallible human memory and perception.
Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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 (1937 - )
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure"
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