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Truth Sayings by Mark Twain
- It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is…
- Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
- But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been…
- An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul…
- Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
- I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
- Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
- Never tell truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- A lie can travel half-way around the world, while the truth is still putting on it's shoes.
- If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
- If you tell the truth, you will not have to remember anything...
- If you tell the truth, you never have to remember anything
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov