Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.'
Sir Richard Francis Burton
It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person.
Gerald Pruitt
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of both.
Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
Samuel Butler
Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.
Samuel Butler
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
Thomas Carlyle
No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
Orson Scott Card
Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
Orson Scott Card
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
Orson Scott Card
Im neutral on lying, seeing as how theres times when the truth just hurts people.
Orson Scott Card
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.
Orson Scott Card
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giacomo Casanova
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.
James Branch Cabell