Truth

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

When in doubt tell the truth .

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

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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.

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

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect .

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

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.