“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful
and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way
of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and
for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think
of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to
himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish
the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and
for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary
act.”
― George Orwell
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them
pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction
is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the
World
“The truth does not change according to our ability to
stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Truth is its own reward.”
― Plato
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.”
― Plato
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness
and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
― Horace Mann
“It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to
hear.”
― Henry David Thoreau
