The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion 
times by a billion people are still false. 
	- Travis Walton, Fire in the Sky

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. 
Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, 
about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their 
difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be 
easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their 
difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should 
not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or 
else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, 
their race or even their species, and not upon others. 
	- M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try 
to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. 
Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a 
reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we 
freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking 
about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most. 
	- Shirley MacLaine, Going Within

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
	- George Matthew Adams

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. 
	- R. Scott Richards

It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. 
	- Henry David Thoreau

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even 
though you never touch its coattails. 
	- Clarence Darrow

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness 
realized by man ever dies, or can die. 
	- Thomas Carlyle

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
	- Agnes Repplier

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a 
truth.'
	- Kahlil Gibran

To the extent that you entertain lies and deceit, you are held 
prisoner in a world cut off from reality. The truth you hide 
from yourself, prevents you from growth and fulfillment. 
The truth you hide from others, keeps you distantly apart. The 
truth shines a bright light on life, so you can clearly see 
the way to go. Success, achievement, happiness, joy, fellowship, 
and fulfillment, thrive in the warm and nurturing light of 
the truth. Honesty is the most direct path to wherever you want 
to go. Truth and honesty are often difficult, yet never more 
difficult, in the end, than deceit. To think otherwise, 
is to deceive even yourself. Hiding in the shadows of falsehood, 
makes it impossible to move forward.That the truth is moral and 
ethical, is no secret. Yet truth is also practical, efficient, 
and effective in every worthy pursuit, something well known by 
those who enjoy lasting success. Live in the bright, empowering 
light. Embrace the truth. It always serves you best.
	- Ralph Marston

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for 
those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for 
yourself. Face the truth.
	- Katherine Mansfield

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always exceeded the demand. 
	- Anonymous

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. 
	- Oscar Wilde

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
	- Plato

Time discovers truth.
	- Seneca

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns 
the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the 
universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a 
fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
	- Robert G. Ingersoll

Life is short, but truth works far and lives long: let us speak 
the truth.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has
always been known to all good men.
	- Patrick Kavanagh

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
	- The Talmud

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
	- George Bernard Shaw

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
	– Emily Dickinson

The truth is what is, not what should be. What should
 be is a dirty lie. 
	- L. Bruce

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
	– Mohandas K. Gandhi

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
	– John Wycliffe

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.
      - Descartes

Live truth instead of professing it.
	- Elbert Hubbard

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and
 another to put him in possession of the truth.
	- John Locke

Adversity is the first path to truth.
        - George Gordon Byron wrote, In "Don Juan"

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power
 supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power
against you.
        - Charles Gordon

In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
 revolutionary act.
	- George Orwell

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, 
however improbable, must be the truth.
            -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's 
affections and the truth of the imagination. What the imagination 
seizes as beauty must be truth.
     - John Keats

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
      - Mark Twain

Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than 
into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. 
Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that 
enhances every object.
	- Albert Camus

It is error alone which needs the support of government. 
Truth can stand by itself.
     - Thomas Jefferson

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you 
were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. 
When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness 
of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree 
to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can 
be painful.
	- Unknown

Let hundreds like me perish, but let TRUTH prevail.
	- Mahatma Gandhi

Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking 
on it. 
	- Arabic Proverb

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what 
people think.
	- Aristotle

Truth is the safest lie.
	- Jewish Proverb

Tell the truth, but keep one foot in the stirrup.
	- Arabian Proverb

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
	- Arabian Proverb

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about 
yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend 
who loves you dearly.
	- Antisthenes

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
       - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
       - Mark Twain

If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth.
	- Rahel

There are three parts in truth: first, the inquiry, which is 
the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the 
presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment 
of it.
	- Sir Francis Bacon

Gossip needn't be false to be evil -- there's a lot of truth 
that shouldn't be passed around.
     - Frank A. Clark

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest 
truths. It is a great truth because when we truly see this 
truth we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult, 
once we 
truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult. 
Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult 
no longer matters.
     - M. Scott Peck

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and 
they thought it was hell.
	- Harry S Truman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
      - Lillian Hellman

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
     - Lenin

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the 
former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the 
latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search 
for it. 
        - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
 
There is no such thing as absolute truth there are only 
degrees of plausibility.
	- Peter Conolly

Follow truth as the only safe guide, and... eschew error, 
which bewilders us in one false consequence after another.
	- Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819

All truths are easy to understand once they
are discovered; the point is to discover them.
        - Galileo Galilei

A lie can travel half-way around the world while
the truth is putting on its shoes.
        - Mark Twain

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first 
in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
        - Kahlil Gibran

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
        - Han Suyin (1917-) Chinese writer & physician
    
May those whose holy task it is,To guide impulsive youth, Fail 
not to cherish in their souls A reverence for truth; For 
teachings which the lips impart Must have their source within 
the heart . . . 
        - Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) US educator, diarist
 
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
        - Nadine Gordimer (1923-) South African novelist
 
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick 
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
        - Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
        - George Prentice

He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
          - Turkish Proverb

A single bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth.
        - Danish Proverb


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