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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.
Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.
People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.