’Tis not enough your counsel still be true; blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. - Alexander Pope
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered. - Josephine Hart
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie. - Ivan Panin
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. - Edgar J. Mohn
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A speaker of truth has no friends. - African Proverb
A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. - Italian Proverb
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. - Maurice Maeterlinck
A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake
A wise man always seeks the light of truth and prefers the company of those who know the value of truth to those who trample it under their feet. - Unknown
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths. - Napoleon Hill
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it. - Woody Allen
All truth is not to be told at all times. - Samuel Butler
All truth is platitude and all platitude is truth. - Gore Vidal
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
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei
An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him. - Charles William Day
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. - Mahatma Gandhi
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offense; a vain man, in order that it may. - William Hazlitt
And differing judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where. - William Cowper
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. - Philip K. Dick
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. - Arthur Conan Doyle
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth. - Robert Browning
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings
As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth. - William Scott Downey
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth. - Buddha
Be scrupulously truthful even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. - Russell Bertrand
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. - St. Augustine
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. - Wayne W. Dyer
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - André Gide
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