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The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. -George Carlin
The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. -J.K. Rowling
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. - Mark Twain
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. -George Orwell
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun. - Suzanne Collins
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde
The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston S. Churchill
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. -Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. -S.E. Hinton
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. -Stephanie Klein
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. - Ernest Hemingway
The more I see, the less I know for sure -John Lennon
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. -Benjamin Disraeli
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. -Ernest Hemingway
f you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf
The past has no power over the present moment. -Eckhart Tolle
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. -François de La Rochefoucauld
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. -Robert Orben
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. -Michelle Hodkin
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. - Edward Abbey
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. - Elizabeth Gilbert,
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. - David Foster Wallace
The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -Marcus Aurelius
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. -George R.R. Martin
Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand -Hayley Williams
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. -George Washington
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing. -Lemony Snicket
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Kahlil Gibran
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. -Lemony Snicket
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. -Katherine Boo
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. - Lao Tzu
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde
Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure. - Cassandra Clare
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. -Sophie Kinsella
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. -T.S. Eliot
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -Carl Sagan
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will -John Green
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. - Walt Whitman
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. -Wallace Stevens
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting. - J.D. Salinger
Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mahatma Gandhi
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. - Leo Tolstoy
Love truth, but pardon error. -Voltaire
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Søren Kierkegaard
“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. -Gautama Buddha
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - George Orwell
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. -Ally Carter
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away. -― Dorothy L. Sayers
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. - Oscar Wilde
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. -by silence,the silence is a lie
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. -Dorothy Allison
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. - C.S. Lewis
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide
The best lies were always mixed with truth. - Sarah J. Maas
Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth. -Delia Ephron
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. -James Joyce
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. -Abraham Lincoln
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears - Laurie Halse Anderson
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. -Walter Scott,
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. - Georges Bataille
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. -Mark Twain
Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. -Criss Jami
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. -Albert Camus
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. - Hunter S. Thompson
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -Douglas Adams
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. -Albert Camus
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true. -Veronica Roth
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. -Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth. -Stefan Molyneux
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. -William Wilberforce
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. - Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is ever certain. -Alice Sebold
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. -Sara Gruen
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. - A.W. Tozer
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. - Doris May Lessing
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. -Jason Mraz
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. -Czesław Miłosz
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. -Banksy
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. -Robin Hobb
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. -Ayn Rand
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. - Carl G. Jung
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. -rvin D. Yalom
Nothing is real. - John Lennon
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. -Voltaire
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr
Does truth have a moral. - Rick Riordan
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - René Descartes
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. - Niels Bohr
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. -Jean Paul Sarte
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. - Khaled Hosseini
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. - Katherine Mansfield
Trust starts with truth and ends with truth. -Santosh Kalwar
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. - H.G. Wells
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. - Malcolm X
This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -Soren Kierkegaard
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. - Bertrand Russell
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary. - Jason Mraz
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. -Osho
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. - Scott Westerfield
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music. -Mark Helprin
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know - John Keats
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them. -Sigmund Freud
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above. - Fernando Pessoa
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. -SiddhÄrtha Gautama
Life is problems. Living is solving problems. - Raymond E. Feist
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. - Michael Jackson
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process -Veronica Roth
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. -Jiddu Krishnamurti
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. -Hermann Hesse
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. -Benjamin Disraeli
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. -Frank Herbert
You should not honor men more than truth. - Plato
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. -Harold Pinter
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. -Arthur Conan Doyle
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. - Joss Whedon
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. -Aldous Huxley
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. - Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. - Albert Einstein
