Truth

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.

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

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

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story .

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

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots .

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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

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

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right .

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.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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

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

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known; and so it is with lies.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

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 at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.