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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

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.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

Truth fears no trial. -Proverb.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.