Half a truth is often a great lie.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.