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truth

Mark Twain
The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A lie cannot live.
Nachman Of Bratslav
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Niels Bohr
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't be "consistent" but be simply true.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that tells the truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Sherlock Holmes
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Tacitus
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Theodore Roosevelt
This truth should be kept constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensable to the permanent success of self-government.
Thomas Paine
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Umberto Eco
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
William Shakespeare
It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.