A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
R. Lee Ermey

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung

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.
Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher