How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

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.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.