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| Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) | Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. | |
| Albert Einstein | If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. | |
| Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) | Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. | |
| Anonymous | As scarce as truth is, the supply has always exceeded the demand. | |
| Anonymous | Truth is to the Bible what fiction is to literature. | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) | All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. | |
| Bette Midler | I never know how much of what I say is true. | |
| Descartes (1596 - 1650) | If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that, at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. | |
| Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) | I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. | |
| Edith Sitwell | The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. | |
| Frank Burgess | With a man, a lie is a last resort; with women, it's First Aid. | |
| Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) | All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. | |
| George Lucas | You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. - (Star Wars author) | |
| Groucho Marx | Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn't it a fine thing too, to face calumny, injustice and loneliness for the truth which makes men free? | |
| Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972) | I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up. | |
| Herbert Agar | The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. | |
| Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431) | Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. | |
| Josh Billings (1818 - 1885) | As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand. - (American author and humorist) | |
| Josh Billings (1818 - 1885) | As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - (American humorist) | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | When in doubt, tell the truth. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. | |
| Native American | I don't know if it happened this way, but I know it's true. - (postscript to a folk legend) | |
| Niels Bohr (1885 - 9162) | The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. | |
| Solomon Short | Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. | |
| Stanley Baldwin (1867 - 1947) | A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. - (British P.M.) | |
| Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) | The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads." | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | Truth is rarely an ally of good intentions. | |
| W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) | Even madmen manage to convey unwelcome truths in lonely gibberish. | |
| Walt Haskins | The friend of all is truth, no matter how unwelcome IT IS on arrival. - (Author COMMENTS USA) | |
| WALT HASKINS | The friend of all is truth, no matter how unwelcome on arrival. - (Author- COMMENTS USA) | |
| William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) | Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. | |
| William James (1842 - 1910) | We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. | |
| Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. |
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