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167. The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.

168. I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille.

169. There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth. Stefan Molyneux.

170. A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Charlie Chaplin.

171. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. Abraham Lincoln.

172. The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. Mark Twain.

173. You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true. Veronica Roth, Allegiant.

174. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. John Keats.

175. The best lies were always mixed with truth. Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight.

176. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau.

177. There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949.

178. Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.

179. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. Criss Jami.

180. Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.

181. If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

182. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.

183. Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now. Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees.

184. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried.

185. The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. Ayn Rand.

186. There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul. José N. Harris.

187. In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. Czes³aw Mi³osz.

188. 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.

189. Does truth have a moral? Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters.

190. This above all: to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

191. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

192. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd. Flannery O'Connor.

193. You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid. John Waters, Role Models.

194. The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. Aristotle.

195. Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men - or about women - is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. Moderata Fonte.

196. Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept.

197. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. Elvis Presley.

198. Trust starts with truth and ends with truth. Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday.

199. Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield.

200. The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. H.G. Wells.

201. I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. Scott Westerfeld, Extras.

202. There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind.

203. Truth is on the side of the oppressed. Malcolm X.

204. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. C.G. Jung.

205. “Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.” ¯ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor.

206. “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.” ¯ Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom.

207. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.” ¯ Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.

208. “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” ¯ Benjamin Disraeli.

209. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” ¯ John Keats, The Complete Poems.

210. “The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.” ¯ Holly Black, Red Glove.

211. “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” ¯ Michael Jackson.

212. “A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?” ¯ Margaret Atwood.

213. “Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.” ¯ Jean-Paul Sartre.

214. “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” ¯ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner.

215. “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.” ¯ Albert Einstein.

216. “The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.” Carl Sagan.

217. “It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye.

218. “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. ¯ Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada.

219. “The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort” ¯ Katherine Dunn, Geek Love.

220. “I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” ¯ Mahatma Gandhi.

221. “You should not honor men more than truth.” ¯ Plato.

222. “Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.” ¯ Myra McEntire, Hourglass.

223. “Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.” ¯ Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.

224. “I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.” ¯ Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn.

225. “If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.” ¯ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free.

226. “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ¯ Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values.

227. Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” ¯ Warren W. Wiersbe.

228. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” ¯ Al David.

229. “The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.” Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah.

230. “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” ¯ Friedrich Nietzsche.

231. “The color of truth is grey.” ¯ André Gide.

232. “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.” ¯ George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah.

233. “I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.” ¯ Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass.

234. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” ¯ Osho, The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties.

235. “No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.” ¯ Sara Shepard, Heartless.

236. “Nothing is yet in its true form.” ¯ C.S. Lewis.

237. “In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.” ¯ Kristin Cashore, Graceling.

238. “Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” Khaled Hosseini.

239. “It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.” ¯ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

240. “The truth is always an abyss. One must -- as in a swimming pool -- dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again -- laughing and fighting for breath -- to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.” ¯ Franz Kafka.

241. “In darkness God's truth shines most clear.” ¯ Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom.

242. “Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.” ¯ José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love.

243. “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” ¯ Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology.

244. “Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” ¯ Albert Camus, The Fall.

245. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” ¯ Martin Luther King Jr.

246. “Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.” ¯ Winston S. Churchill.

247. “I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” ¯ Stephen Fry.

248. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” ¯ Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman.

249. “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.” ¯ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet.

250. “The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.” ¯ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes.

251. “Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.” ¯ Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty.

252. “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” ¯ Pablo Picasso.

253. “If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.” ¯ Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire.

254. “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.” ¯ Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi.

255. “Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.” ¯ Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed.

256. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.” ¯ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

257. “To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.” ¯ Leo Tolstoy.

258. “Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.” ¯ Gautama Buddha.

259. “Truth is a matter of the imagination.” ¯ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness.

260. “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” ¯ Carl Sagan.

261. “And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.” ¯ René Descartes, Discourse on Method.

262. “Don't talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It's not becoming to a child. It's - cynical.” “I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.” ¯ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.

263. “Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.” ¯ Terry Goodkind.

264. “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.” ¯ William Faulkner.

265. “The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.” ¯ Franz Kafka.

266. “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” ¯ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

267. “A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.” ¯ Criss Jami, Killosophy.

268. “Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.” ¯ Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night.

269. “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ¯ John F. Kennedy.

270. “When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.” ¯ Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight.

271. “Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.” ¯ Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry.

272. “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” ¯ Blaise Pascal.

273. “We are what we believe we are!” ¯ C.S. Lewis.

274. “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. “ ¯ Tana French, In the Woods.

275. “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ¯ Isaac Newton.

276. “All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.” ¯ Thomas Jefferson, Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters.

277. “You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.” ¯ Anton Chekhov.

278. “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.” ¯ Anaïs Nin.

279. “The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.” ¯ Terry Pratchett.

280. “Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.” H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major.

281. “For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.” ¯ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

282. “I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.” ¯ Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin.

283. “Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” ¯ Albert Einstein.

284. “Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.” ¯ Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle.

285. “the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth” ¯ Jean-Paul Sartre.

286. “Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark” ¯ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Teibele And Her Demon.

287. “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” ¯ Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.

288. “By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.” ¯ Virginia Woolf, Orlando.

289. “You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”¯ Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi.

290. “A truth that no one knows is still the truth.” ¯ Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn.

291. “Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.” ¯ Madeleine L'Engle.

292. I try to say exactly what I honestly believe to be the truth, and more than that no man can do. I honestly believe that creedists have built up a mighty structure of inaccuracy, based, curiously, on those fundamental truths which I, with every honest man, must not alone admit but earnestly acclaim.” ¯ Thomas A. Edison.

293. “Hell is truth seen too late.” ¯ Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.

294. “Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.” ¯ Gautama Buddha.

295. “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” ¯ P.C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask.

296. “The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.” ¯ Ann Landers.

297. “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.” ¯ Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

298. “Learning the truth has become my life's love.” ¯ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code.

299. “To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” ¯ John Locke.

300. “If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.” ¯ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Complete Letters, 1868-1871.

301. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ¯ Winston S. Churchill.

302. “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.” ¯ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

303. “Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” ¯ Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

304. “We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth” ¯ Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing.

305. “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” ¯ Terry Pratchett, The Truth.

306. “Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!” ¯ George Gordon Byron, Don Juan.

307. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." ¯ Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters.

308. “The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.” ¯ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke.

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