A new untruth is better than an old truth. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. – Alfred Adler
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. – Terry Pratchett
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. – Tom Stoppard
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. – Otto von Bismarck
You never find yourself until you face the truth. – Pearl Bailey
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. – Charles Caleb Colton
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. – Albert Pike
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. – Charles Lamb
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living. – Thomas a Kempis
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. – Joseph Conrad
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. – Marie Curie
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. – David Herbert Lawrence
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. – Shakira
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love. – William Shatner
