“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
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“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.”
“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?”
“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”
“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”
“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”
“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.”
“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.”
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.”
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.”
“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.”
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”
“A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.”
“Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.”
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”