Truth Quotes - Page 100

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing impressions in the shape of events with the mind. All these things were brought about in man by his disobedience.

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.