1. “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
william shenstone
2. “The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
franklin d. roosevelt
3. “Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”
giordano bruno
4. “The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
hiram johnson
5. “The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
ayn rand
6. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
mark twain
7. “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
aleksandr solzhenitsyn
8. “The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
jean cocteau
9. “Silence is the mother of truth.”
benjamin disraeli
10. “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”
george washington
11. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
winston churchill
12. “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also”.
carl jung
13. “Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
emily dickinson
14. “Half a truth is often a great lie.”
benjamin franklin
15. “Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
matthew arnold
16. “The truth is more important than the facts.”
frank lloyd wright
17. “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
walt whitman
18. “Adversity is the first path to truth.”
lord byron
19. “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
george bernard shaw
20. “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
william blake
21. “The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
lao tzu
22. “Wisdom is found only in truth.”
johann wolfgang von goethe
23. “To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.”
bayard rustin
24. “In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.”
charles lindbergh
25. “Sincerity is moral truth.”
George henry lewes
26. “When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
otto von bismarck
27. “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
francis bacon
28. “The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.”
clarence darrow
29. ““A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
aesop
30. “There are certain persons for whom pure truth is a poison.”
Andre Maurols
31. “The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”
shana alexander
32. “Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
hosea ballou
33. “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
mark twain
34. “Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
c.s. lewis
35. “Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
david icke
36. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
virginia woolf
37. “Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
arthur conan doyle
38. “Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
lillian hellman
39. “The truth needs so less rehearsal.”
barbara kingsolver
40. “Light is a symbol of truth.”
james russell lowell
41. “Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
rabindranath tagoretrrrre
42. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
vladimir lenin
43. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
charles spurgeon
44. “That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquilities.”
rumi
45. “Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
aesop
46. “There is no truth. There is only perception.”
Gustave flaubert
47. “Truth disappears with the telling of it.”
lawrence durrell
48. “A lot of truth is said in jest.”
eminem
49. “There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
daniel webster
50. “There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.”
georg michael
