Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. – Aesop
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. – Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. – Henry David Thoreau
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. – Jim Rohn
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. – Albert Camus
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. – George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Vladimir Lenin
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. – Will Rogers
Wisdom is found only in truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. – Rodney Dangerfield
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
