Truth Quotes

"The courage of truth is the first condition of philosophic study." "Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond." "You can't imagine how much happiness I found trapped inside a lie." "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" "I am here to bear witness. My testimony will burn to the end of the world" "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it" "There is no story that is not true, the world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others " "The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out." "Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile" "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." "The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." "All great truths begin as blasphemies." "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "We must speak truth no matter how uncomfortable it may be" "People often claim to hunger for truth but seldom like the taste when it's served up" "It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction." "The path of integrity is always the right path, even if it is the difficult one." "Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent." "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."