Truth Quotes The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.     Herbert Agar Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.     Matthew Arnold Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.     Bible, John 8:32 As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.     Josh Billings This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.     Tom Bissell The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.     Niels Bohr Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.     Clarence Darrow Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.     Sir Winston Churchill How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?     Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.     Ralph Waldo Emerson All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.     Galileo Galilei Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'     Kahlil Gibran Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.     Andre Gide A lie told often enough becomes the truth.     Lenin Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.     Abraham Lincoln There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.     Agnes Repplier I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.     Real Live Preacher All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.     Arthur Schopenhauer Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.     William Shakespeare The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.     Edith Sitwell Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.     Elizabeth Cady Stanton Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.     Quintus Septimius Tertullianus The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.     Tom Stoppard A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.     Mark Twain (attributed) Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.     Mark Twain The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.     Mark Twain Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.     Mark Twain Love truth, and pardon error.     Voltaire The truth is rarely pure and never simple.     Oscar Wilde The truth is more important than the facts.     Frank Lloyd Wright Previous Subject - Trust | Next Subject - Uncertainty