A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
“Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: That she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.