Truth

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

(Stopford Brooke)

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Mark Twain

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

One of the best things about telling the truth is that
you don't have to remember what you said.

(A good liar needs an excellent memory)

Truth rises above mere consideration of good and evil and becomes something more than the sum of its parts.

Truth is never pure, and rarely simple.

Oscar Wilde--The Importance of Being Earnest Act i

Truth is absolute. The fact that everyone once believed that the world is flat didn't succeed in unrounding it by a single millimeter. If five billion people are making a mistake, it's still a mistake.

Truth can be a strange and wonderous beast that is not for the feint hearted. In Australia we currently have a government which dramatically manipulates the truth of many situations to try and stay in power. It is currently dening the existance of a generation of Australian Aboriginal children that were forcibly taken from their parents by the government from the the 1920s to the 1970s in an attempt to assimilate them into the white population

It is hard to believe that someone is telling the truth when you are quite sure that if you were in his place you would lie.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Austin O'Malley

»If truth is stranger than fiction, this is because fiction is obliged to stick to the possibilities and truth isn't« (Mark Twain, bless him).

To a man of a mathematical turn of mind – to a student and lover of the exact sciences these inaccuracies of expression – this inability to understand exactly how things are must be a constant source of annoyance; and to one who, like myself, writes this turn of mind to an ardent love of truth, for its own sake – the reflection that the English language does not enable us to speak the truth with exactness (hello, mr. president!), is peculiarly painful.
John Phoenix, A New System of English Grammar, 1854.