A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
—Thomas Mann
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
—Gerald R. Ford
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
We put our truths together in pieces, but you use nails, and I use glue. You mend with staples. I mend with screws. You stitch what I would bandage. Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand.
—Sheri Reynolds
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
—Paul Tillich
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
—Paul Valéry
“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.
—P.C. Cast in Hunted
Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.
—Selena Kitt in Grace
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
—Samuel Butler
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
—Winston Churchill
That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth.
—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
—Charles Darwin
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
—John Keats
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
—Louisa May Alcott