Truth

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense .

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

The one great rule of composition is to speak the truth.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

In thy face I see The map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

Time’s glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.

O! what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

The antique Persians taught three useful things— To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.