1. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. - Robert H. Schuller
2. The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. - Chanakya
3. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. - Anne Lamott
4. Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. - Henri Frederic Amiel
5. The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. - Clarence Darrow
6. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. - Andy Rooney
7. There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. - Josh Billings
8. Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. - George Lucas
9. Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. - Tacitus
10. I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. - Herodotus
11. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir
12. Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. - Anais Nin
13. My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. - Whitney Houston
14. If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. - Horace Mann
15. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. - Horace Mann
16. We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. - Charles Stanley
17. The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr
18. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. - Patrick Henry
19. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. - John Calvin
20. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot
21. Light is the symbol of truth. - James Russell Lowell
22. I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. - Flannery O'Connor
23. Learn what is true in order to do what is right. - Thomas Huxley
24. Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
25. The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. - Dorothy L. Sayers
26. Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. - Christopher Marlowe
27. It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. - Steven Biko
28. Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth. - Justin Timberlake
29. Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. - Arthur Miller
30. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens
31. Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. - Frank A. Clark
32. I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. - Hans Eysenck
33. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather
34. The first reaction to truth is hatred. - Tertullian
35. My longing for truth was a single prayer. - Edith Stein
36. If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. - Emile Zola
37. Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. - David Icke
38. There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. - Andre Maurois
39. Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. - Shel Silverstein
40. Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. - William Cullen Bryant
41. Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. - Adolf Loos
42. Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
43. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold
44. Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. - Mary Astell
45. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. - Thomas Mann
46. The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver
47. Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. - Hosea Ballou
48. It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome
49. Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. - Leo Rosten
50. Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen
51. Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. - Jean Rostand
52. The intuition of free will gives us the truth. - Corliss Lamont
53. By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. - Peter Abelard
54. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. - Lillian Hellman
55. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh
56. What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. - Tracey Emin
57. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. - Antisthenes
58. Truth exists; only lies are invented. - Georges Braque
59. Sincerity is moral truth. - George Henry Lewes
60. Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that. - Nathan Lane
61. No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. - Anna Held
62. The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander
63. In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. - Michael Musto
64. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
65. There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. - Ida Tarbell
66. Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. - H. P. Lovecraft
67. All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
68. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. - Mahatma Gandhi
69. A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Vladimir Lenin
70. You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress. - Bernie Sanders
71. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. - Harry S Truman
72. To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. - John Locke
73. There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. - Marie Curie
74. It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth. - Bob Kane
75. Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. - Mark Twain
76. We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
77. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. - Winston Churchill
78. That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. - Abraham Lincoln
79. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein
80. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. - Friedrich Nietzsche
81. In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. - Friedrich Nietzsche
82. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. - Friedrich Nietzsche
83. Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare
84. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. - Mahatma Gandhi
85. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. - Thomas Jefferson
86. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. - C. S. Lewis
87. How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus
88. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus
89. I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. - Jesus Christ
90. Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth. - Nipsey Hussle
91. Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. - Isaac Newton
92. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. - Viktor E. Frankl
93. I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. - Harry S Truman
94. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. - Francis Bacon
95. Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. - Blaise Pascal
96. Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. - Nikola Tesla
97. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
98. New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. - Kurt Vonnegut
99. It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. - George Santayana
100. In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. - Leonard Cohen
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