All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. – Bob Dylan
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
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. – John Keats
By ignorance the truth is known. – Henry Suso
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do. – Leonard Cohen
Everything we hear is an option, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truths for yourself. – Vilfredo Pareto
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. – Albert Einstein
If I have been untrue, I hope you know, it was never to you. – Leonard Cohen
If it’s not right, don’t do it. If it’s not true, don’t say it. – Marcus Aurelius
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
If you’re a minority of one, the truth is the truth. – Mahatma Gandhi
If you’re the one who tells the lie, you’re the first to find out. – Fergus O’Farrell
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill
It doesn’t matter whether a story genuinely happened or not. The main thing is that it’s true. – Erich Kaestner
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize it as falsehood. – Albert Einstein
It is good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were just starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all. – Cormac McCarthy
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being. It is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once 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
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. – Mahatma Gandhi
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. – Winston Churchill
Not only are we the sole animal capable of believing in Santa Claus, we are also the only one that can come to grips with the truth he doesn’t exist. – Jon Franklin
Pompous vocabulary and revolutionary overtones make me suspicious. Truth tends to present itself modestly and in simple garb. – Albert Einstein
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it. – Blaise Pascal
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. The person who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. – Plato
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth. – Bill Watterson
The best camouflage of all, in my opinion, is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it. – Max Frisch
The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts. – Albert Einstein
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Neils Bohr
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. – Flannery O’Connor
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. – Peter Ustinov
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. – Bill Watterson
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. – Norman Schwarzkopf
There is one elementary truth. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Truth comes in blows. – Saul Bellow
Truth is abhorred by the masses. – Baltasar Gracián
Truth is not only violated by falsehood. It may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri-Frédéric Amie
Truth is what stands the test of experience. – Albert Einstein
Two truths that aren’t true. God helps those who help themselves. Actors get up at 5 a.m. – Bob Dylan
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. – Pablo Picasso
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein
You can lead people to truth, but you can’t make them understand it. – Bill Watterson