Truth

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

I'm not smart enough to lie.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Now they accuse me of going up and down the Nation on a whistlestop train, and the slogansthat they hurl at me most of the time are “Give’em hell, Harry.” That reputation I did not earn. All I do is to tell them [the Republicans] thetruth, and that hurts a lot worse than giving them hell.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak .

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

No lie ever reaches old age.

There are two sides to every question.

No falsehood lingers on into old age.

Such water-colors to impaint his cause.

Truth from his lips prevail’d with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain’d to pray.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as ’twas said to me.

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.

Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people [sceptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.