Quotes About Truth

Among other common lies, we have the _silent_ lie--the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they _speak_ no lie, they lie not at all.

At the time that the telegraph brought the news of his death, I was on the Pacific coast. I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands—a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say.

Of course, there are many rich men in the empire, but their money is buried, and they dress in rags and counterfeit poverty.

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

Moralizing, I observed, then, that all that glitters is not gold.

S]in takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

It ain't so much the things that people don't know that makes trouble in this world, as it is the things that people know that ain't so.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. - A Tramp Abroad

That was the greatest heart and the simplest that ever beat.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so

It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren't we always acting lies? Then why not tell them?

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying. No virtue can reach its highest usefulness without careful and diligent cultivation--therefore, it goes without saying that this one ought to be taught in the public schools--even in the newspapers. What chance has the ignorant uncultivated liar against the educated expert?

extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." ? Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

You're never wrong to do the right thing.- Ben, The Intern. Mark Twain may have said it first

Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl's child than you are!

or else it wouldn't be truthful and square for the others.

Qu'est-ce qu'un Juif lépreux qui, né d'une catin et d'un soldat, dans le plus chétif coin de l'univers, ose se faire passer pour l'organe de celui qui, dit-on, a créé le monde

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need

It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.