Truth

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

I hardly ever felt as alienated from people as I do right now… The worst is that nowhere is there anything with which one can identify. Brutality and lies are everywhere.

Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of the truth.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

I design plain truth for plain people.

We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.

[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

It takes two to speak the truth,—one to speak, and another to hear.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Let’s talk sense to the American people.

They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,