To Tell the Truth
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A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Vladimir Lenin
A lie's a lie and dressed in white don't help it. - Marjorie Main
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. - Mark Twain
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings
Beware of half-truths. You may get the wrong half!
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. - Evan Esar
Don't be a mute Satan. If you know the truth, you have an obligation to tell everyone. - Arab proverb
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. - G. K. Chesterton
Half the truth is often a great lie.
Hell is truth seen too late.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists. - G. K. Chesterton
If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble. - Nachman of Bratslav
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another? - G. K. Chesterton
It is better to suffer the consequences of the truth than the consequences of a lie.
It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. - William Shakespeare
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever
for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Lies are dictated by the pursuit of pleasure. - Marcel Proust
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. - Denise Levertov
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston Churchill
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. - Elizabeth Goudge
One truth is worth more than a million opinions.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Edmund Burke
Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Stretching the truth won't make it last any longer.
The best mind-altering drug is truth. - Lily Tomlin
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies.
The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. - Agnes Repplier
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily. - George Washington
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. - Austin O'Malley
Truth always wins. Reality will not be frustrated forever.
Truth has only to change hands a few times to become fiction.
Truth is incontrovertible; ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it,
but there it is. - Winston Churchill
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. - Mark Twain
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. - William Shakespeare
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
Understanding is the three-edged sword; your side, their side and the truth. - Babylon 5
Vehemence is no guarantee of truth. - Isaac Asimov
We do not just say what we believe ... we end up believing what we say. - Randy Alcorn
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions. - Dwight Morrow
When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain
When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing ... they believe in anything.
- G. K. Chesterton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - G. K. Chesterton
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