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In jest - it is well known - one may even tell the truth.
Sigmund Freud / 






The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Émile Zola / 






Nature is truth. Art is the highest truth.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 






Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor W. Adorno






Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy / 






True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan / 






What forbids me from telling the truth with a laugh?
Quintus Horatius Flaccus / 






The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty / 






It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf






There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill






I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal






Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau / 






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






The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill






Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir






The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire






Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard






I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton






There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire / 






Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain






Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso






Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
Mark Twain






Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
François de La Rochefoucauld






The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius






The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi






I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi






The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt






Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius






God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi










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