When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
--Sherlock Holmes
Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
--Flannery O'Connor
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity,
nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
--Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
You cannot change the truth, but the truth can change you.
--Unknown
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer
I don't want any yes-men around me.
I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
--Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power
to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom
of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
--Michel de Montaigne
The search for truth is more precious than its possession
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
--Harry S. Truman
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
--Arab Proverb
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always
--Albert Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)
If you do not tell the truth about yourself,
you can't tell it about other people.
--Virginia Woolf
Truth is a passion. One cannot learn it; one must possess it.
--Ernst Toller
It does not require many words to speak the truth
--Chief Joseph
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
--Edith Sitwell
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession,
and therefore are most economical in its use.
--Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
--Mark Twain
Love truth, but pardon error.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
I believe in the sun even though it is slow in rising.
I believe in you without realizing.
I believe in rain though there are no clouds in the sky.
I believe in truth even though people lie.
I believe in peace though sometimes I am violent.
I believe in God even though he is silent.
--Unknown
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
True friendship is never serene.
--Mariede Svign
Because you're not what I would have you be,
I blind myself to who, in truth you are.
--Madeline L'Engle
Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full.
Others spend lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty.
The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it.
From there, it's up to you!
--Dr. James S. Vuocolo
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain:
either you will reach a point higher up today,
or you will be training your powers so that
you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
You Can't Handle The Truth!
--Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson) A Few Good Men
The truth that makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear.
--Herbert Agar
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
--William Blake
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
--Albert Einstein
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
--Frederick Douglass
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them
pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.
--Sir Winston Churchill
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor
--Albert Einstein
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
--Galileo Galilei
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth,
it is necessary that all should learn to hear it.
--Samuel Johnson
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
--Aristotle
I'm not playing him to make people hate him for his attitude
or make them like him. I'm just playing his attitude as truthfully as I know how.
--Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001)
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
--Unknown
The truth may hurt but a lie can cut a deeper wound.
--Unknown
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
--Slovenian Proverb
Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why
people are so surprised when meeting it.
Everyone must decide whether he wants the uncompromising truth
or a counterfeit version of truth. Real wisdom consists of
recommending the truth to yourself at every opportunity.
--Vernon Howard
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
--Rick Pitino
There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the
process of discovering them over and over and over.
--David Nichols
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do,
the hard part is doing it
--General Norman Schwarzkopf
The difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense
--Mark Twain
The truth is out there.
-- X-Files
Truth has no court.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility.
And vice versa.
--Robert A. Heinlein
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
--Arthur C. Clarke
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy
--John Trapp
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know,
is a collection of facts, because they can be made to
appear so many different ways.
--Dr. Karl Menninger
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