The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner.
Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater.
Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure.
Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.
Sri Chinmoy
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Charles Edward Montague
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Mark Twain
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Who lies for you will lie against you.
Bosnian Proverb
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”
Abraham Lincoln
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
“In any arguement, the moment we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves”.
Awesome quote. (And one of the foundational blocks for any successful relationship).
Thanks for uncovering it Rob.