I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me. – Moliere
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. – Steve Martin
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Humility is truth. – Desiderius Erasmus
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. – Abu Bakr
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. – Mary Todd Lincoln
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. – Franz Kafka
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. – Joseph Joubert
Justice is the truth in action. – Joseph Joubert
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. – Bryant H. McGill
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. – Venus Williams
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. – Henry A. Wallace
Veiling truth in mystery. – Virgil
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. – Nicolaus Copernicus
