“When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.”
“Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.”
“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.”
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”
“That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.”
“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.”
“Truth is reality.”
“See it like it is!”
“Truth alone wounds.”
“Truth is its own reward.”
“Too much truth is uncouth.”
“What is true belongs to me!”
“A half truth is a whole lie.”
“Truth never hurts the teller.”
“The truth is lived, not taught.”
“Truth does not contradict truth.”
“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
“There is no god higher than truth.”
“What is, is; and what ain't, ain't”
“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
“What I tell you three times is true.”
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
“A hair divides what is false and true.”
“The great seal of truth is simplicity.”
“Truth is always the strongest argument.”
“I am always going to be true to myself.”
“It is the truth that irritates a person.”
“Truth disappears with the telling of it.”