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. ~ H. L. Mencken, Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. ~ George Washington
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.~ Dwight Eisenhower
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. ~ George Santayana
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.~ Stephen King
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~ William James
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it, fragment by fragment.~ Anais Nin
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. ~ Ashanti Proverb
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-- always. ~ Albert Schweitzer
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ~ Albert Einstein
Utter truth is essential... and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. ~ Margaret Bourke-White
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. ~ Anais Nin
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. ~ Adrienne Rich
For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. ~ Audre Lorde
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. ~ John Ruskin