All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
When virtue is lost benevolence appears when benevolence is lost right conduct appears when right conduct is lost expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
The object of the superior man is truth.
One may sometimes tell a lie but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.
Nothing is beautiful only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Say not 'I have found the truth ' but rather 'I have found a truth.'
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.