Truth

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out .

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne’er so much.

But all was false and hollow; through his tongue Dropp’d manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.