"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."
— Mark Twain

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
— Mark Twain

"A book without words is like
love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolf

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

"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

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Mark Twain

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth! "
— Homer

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
— Jessamyn West

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
— Mark Twain

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. "
— Flannery O'Connor

"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. "
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." (The NKJV Bible)"
— Jesus Christ

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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— C. S. Lewis

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X

"I mean every word I ever say, ever. Because I'm Harry Potter."
— Harry Potter

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. "
— Kahlil Gibran

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."
— Robert Orben

" Mistakes:
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others"
— Anonymous

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
— Maya Angelou

"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir)

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
— William Shakespeare

"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
— Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions))

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. "
— Clive Barker

"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
— H. L. Mencken (A Little Book in C Major)

"'I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.'"
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3))

"'Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!"
— Lord Byron

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— Frances de La Rochefoucauld

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed."
— Malcolm X

""Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become.""
— Uknown (Deus Ex 3)

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
--Two Listeners "
— A.J. Russell

"He moved like a dancer, which is not surpising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music."
— Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale)

"It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates."
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"...it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
— J. Krishnamurti

"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles."
— Robert Walser (Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics))

"To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. "
— Evelyn Fox Keller (Reflections on Gender and Science: Tenth Anniversary Paperback Edition)

"There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without."
— Robert Browning

"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."
— Henry Miller (Sexus (Rosy Crucifixion, Book One))

"I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer (The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer)

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

"We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN."
— B. W. Powe (Towards a Canada of Light)

"It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth."
— A.C. Grayling (The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century)

"It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation."
— Anton Szandor Lavey

"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."
— Solomon Short

"I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world."
— Harry Crews (Getting Naked With Harry Crews: Interviews)

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"there are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

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— harold pinter (old times)

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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— Galations vi 7

"بنمای چنان که هستی، یا چنان باش که می نمایی."
— بایزید بسطامی

"You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.
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— Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby)

"Reading is re-reading."
— unknown college prof

"To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness."
— William Pickens

"Truth is truth, no matter what its source."
— Shelagh Bocoum

"All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. "
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel)

"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
— Bertrand Russell (A History of Western Philosophy)

"The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture"
— Normal Mailer via the character of Charley Eitel

"The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility. "
— E.M. Forrester, "Howard's End"

"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
— Ayn Rand- Atlas Shrugged

"She's my daughter. She's my sister."
— Robert Towne

"If the truth doesn't work, turn to the art of Bullshit."
— Mrs. Walleck

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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— Benjamin Disraeli

"Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."
— Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities)

"One of the saddest verses in the Bible is this: “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”"
— Charlotte Sumpter, on II Timothy 3:7 (Holy Bible, King James Version)

"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

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
— Meister Eckhart

"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."
— T.S. ELIOT

"The issue is truth, my dear brothers and sisters, and the only way to find truth is through uncompromising self-education toward self-honesty to see the original “real me,” the child of God, in its innocence and potential in contrast to the influence from the other part of me, “the flesh,” with its selfish desires and foolishness. Only in that state of pure honesty are we able to see truth in its complete dimension. Honesty may not be everything, but everything is nothing without honesty. In its final state, honesty is a gift of the Spirit through which the true disciples of Christ"
— Elder F. Enzio Busche

"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational."
— A.N Wilson

"there are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened."
— harold pinter (old times)

"El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha)

"A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to."
— Tom Bissell

"Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, dass der Wunsch unerfüllbar ist. Steht man aber plötzlich vor der Möglichkeit, dass der Wunschtraum Wirklichkeit wird, dann wünscht man sich nur noch eins: Man hätte es sich nie gewünscht."
— Michael Ende (Die unendliche Geschichte)

"do unto others before they do unto you"
— a goddamn genius

"Signs of crime: screaming or cries for help.
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— -- The Brown University Security Crime Prevention Pamphlet

"The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement."
— Don Roff

"The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad."
— Kevin Sites (In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars)

"Tell it like it is."
— I don't know

"The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself.

But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that the ascription of determinacy to anything else has been exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial -- notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit."
— Harry G. Frankfurt (On Bullshit)

""....Kebenaran tidak perlu di iklankan....""
— Fidel Castro

"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."
— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

"Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core."
— David Mitchell

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
— Bert Leston Taylor (The So-Called Human Race)

"Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"
— Claudius Galen

""kebenaran tidak perlu di iklankan......"
-Fidel Castro-"
— denkz

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
— Benjamin Disraeli, British Politician (1804-1881)

"there are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

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— harold pinter (old times)