Truth

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Truth rises above mere consideration of good and evil and becomes something more than the sum of its parts.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Bismarck

Seek the truth – or the truth will seek you!

Truth is absolute. The fact that everyone once believed that the world is flat didn't succeed in unrounding it by a single millimeter. If five billion people are making a mistake, it's still a mistake.

One of the best things about telling the truth is that
you don't have to remember what you said.

(A good liar needs an excellent memory)

Truth can be a strange and wonderous beast that is not for the feint hearted. In Australia we currently have a government which dramatically manipulates the truth of many situations to try and stay in power. It is currently dening the existance of a generation of Australian Aboriginal children that were forcibly taken from their parents by the government from the the 1920s to the 1970s in an attempt to assimilate them into the white population

The honest truth of today will become the terrible lie of tomorrow.

The truth would be told more often if it were as safe to tell as to hide.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

One should be just as careful about lying
as about telling the truth.
Lionel Strachey

The thing you tell people when you just can't think of anything else.