Truth Quotes

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We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. — George William Russell
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he… — O. Henry
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty. — John Donne
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart. — James Russell Lowell
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. — Alexander Pope
Veracity is the heart of morality. — Thomas Huxley
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. — Michel de Montaigne
An honest man's word is as good as his bond. — Miguel de Cervantes
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. — Elizabeth Bowen
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white… — William Faulkner
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the… — Andre Gide
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which,… — George Gissing
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. — Eric Hoffer
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. — Thornton Wilder
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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