Quotes About Truth

Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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.

Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!

Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

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

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.

Names are not always what they seem.

First get the facts, you can distort them later

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth

Homely truth is unpalatable.

It is never wrong to do the right thing.

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

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.

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

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.