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"It's not enough to speak, but to speak true."
William Shakespeare
"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
Edmund Burke
"It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true."
Henry Kissinger
"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."
Marcel Proust
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
GK Chesterton
"If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind."
Ayn Rand
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
George Bernard Shaw
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
C.S. Lewis
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
Otto von Bismarck
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
Mark Twain
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies."
Mark Twain
"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately."
Nicolo Machiavelli
"There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve."
George MacDonald
"You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police."
Jack Nicholson
"Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use."
Mark Twain
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
Hunter S. Thompson
"A man never lies as much as after a hunt, during a war, and before an election."
Otto von Bismarck
"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
George Dennison Prentice
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