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- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
- I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
- Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - )
- Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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