Don’t confuse majority opinion with truth.
Most people care less about the truth than to be strengthened in their views. – Willem Cornelis Capel
To find the truth, you have to turn your back on the multitude. – Fontenelle
Bismarck has said of the journalists that most are people who have missed their calling. The truth is even worse: they are mostly people who have not missed their calling. – Ernst Hohenemser
The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves. – Marilyn Monroe
A white lie is always forgivable. But whoever tells the truth without necessity does not deserve indulgence. – Karl Kraus
A lie is often just an anachronism, a belated anticipation of the truth. – Robert Sabatier
No harvest of truth ripens from seeds of lies. – A.S.C. Wallis
A big lie is often easier to pronounce than a small truth. – Peter Sirius
A good liar usually speaks the truth. – Jean de Boisson
The truth always rises and grows in the struggle with the lie. – Mao Tse Tung
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘T is but the truth in masquerade. – Lord George Byron
A politician only speaks the truth when he calls another politician a liar. – Harvey Kurtzmann
The truth is never going to rebuke the lie; her sincerity alone is the most severe rebuke. – Henry David Thoreau
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. – Maxim Gorki
Man would rather live within a comfortable lie, then in an uncomfortable truth.
And who says that only the truth is real? The lie is as alive as the truth, if not more alive. – Ivan Turgenew
Anytime you stir up the past and deal with civil rights a lot of people say ‘Oh, well that’s a done deal, it’s over with,’ and that couldn’t be furthest from the truth. – Jeff Woodard
Historical truth is made of the silence of the dead. – Etienne Rey
Oh, Truth, forget me! – Fernando Pessoa
Wrapping the truth in dark words. – Virgil
Truth is like a magic ball that changes color every three seconds. – Arnon Grunberg
It is impossible to argue with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already knows it. – Romain Rolland
The truth has no special time. Her time is always right when it seems most outdated. – Albert Schweitzer
The truth has no agenda. – George S. Patton Jr.
Full we drink the flattering lie, and drop by drop we swallow the bitter truth. – Denis Diderot
In many ways I reached my truth: I did not climb the same ladder to a height where my gaze was directed into my distance. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. – Jean Cocteau
Truth disappears with the telling of it. – Lawrence Durrell
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. – Agnes Repplier
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. – Matthew Arnold
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. – Scott Westerfeld
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. – Oscar Wilde
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Isocrates
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All high truth is the union of two contradictories. – Frederick W. Robertson
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born. – Doris Lessing
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then. Life is dull without it. – Pearl S. Buck
Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book. – Madonna
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
The first casualty when war comes is truth. – Hiram Warren Johnson
Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right.
Man would rather live within a comfortable lie, then in the uncomfortable truth.
The only people who are mad at you for speaking the Truth, are the people who are living a lie. Keep speaking the Truth.
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb. – D. B. C. Pierre
The truth of truths is love. – Philip James Bailey
Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde
