Truth

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road of truth; not going all the way & not starting.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The color of truth is gray.

Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch. Nay, you may kick it about all day, and it will be round and full at evening.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.