"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

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

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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."
— C.S. Lewis

"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34"
— Various (Holy Bible: NIV Student Bible)

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

"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 Gibrán

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; 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 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

"'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)

"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)

"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)

"There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened."
— Harold Pinter

"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)

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

"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)

"'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!
- Don Juan"
— George Gordon Byron

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

"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)

"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)

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

"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

"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)

"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

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

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— harold pinter (old times)

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