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Quotes About Veracity

Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.
~ Dave Kopel
Say things to the world that are true.
~ Pablo Casals
Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.
~ Mason Cooley
Truth never hurt the teller.
~ Robert Browning
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.
~ Charles Kimball
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
~ Amy Tan
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
~ Cornel West
Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
~ Ellen Hopkins
Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.
~ Emile Hirsch
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
~ George Eliot
Never break faith with the truth.
~ George Tenet
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.
~ Kristi Jacobson
Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.
~ Matthew Rhys
A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.
~ Samuel Richardson
I believe in telling the truth.
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.
~ Stephen Colbert
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.
~ Vinnie Tortorich
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
~ William Hazlitt
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
~ Robert Louis Stevenson