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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
Sep 30, 2025
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.
Children and fools always speak the truth
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.
A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.