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- 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, Act I
- 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
- I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
- Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
- 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 - )
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