Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. - Laurel K. Hamilton
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw
Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safir
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. - Mark Twain
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. - H. L. Mencken
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. - William Osler
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. - Henry Ward Beecher
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one owns the truth, no person, no prophet, and no holy book. Each of those and, indeed, each person has the ability, the right, and the responsibility to seek and find his or her own truth, and, if found, it may be a truth for that moment, in that situation, and for that person only. - Unknown
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. - Francis Bacon
No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united. - Fluke Greville
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. - Henry Wad Beecher
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen
Not everything that's true needs to be said. - Cassandra Clare
Nothing endures except truth. - Luc de Clapiers
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. - Horace Mann
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim
Our feelings often colour the truth. - Edward Counsel
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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