Famous Quotations About Truth

Here are some famous quotations about truth. We have quotes made by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle plus others.

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'Tis strange-but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I teach only the truth - but that shouldn't make you believe it.

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Poetry is not the assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplace, but which all experience refutes.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thoroughgoing disregard for it which we practice.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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