A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. Confucius
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Khalil Gibran
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Khalil Gibran
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. Henry David Thoreau
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Khalil Gibran
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
The object of the superior man is truth. Confucius
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S. Truman