“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
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“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
“Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
“Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.”
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
“Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.”
“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
“In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.”
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”
“The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
“Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.”
“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
“It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.”
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.”
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”