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Truth

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. – Aesop

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. – Arthur Miller

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. – Robert H. Schuller

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. – Emile Zola

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. – David Icke

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. – Thomas Mann

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. – Michael Musto

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. – Antisthenes

The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. – Albert Einstein

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

When in doubt tell the truth. – Mark Twain

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. – Mahatma Gandhi