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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle on truth

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes on truth

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell on truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens on truth

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on truth

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Albert Schweitzer on truth

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce on truth

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover on truth

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman on truth

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci on truth

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King on truth

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on truth

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles on truth

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr. on truth

Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli on truth

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal on truth

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal on truth

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville on truth

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher on truth

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal on truth