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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I try to tell the truth.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.