„No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs — the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then — face the world.“

„(…) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas.“

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

„Christ said, "The Truth shall make you free," but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.“

—  Max Heindel, buch The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

„Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.“

—  Stanisław Lem Polish science fiction author 1921 - 2006

„Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around“

—  Koushun Takami, buch Battle Royale

„Truth typically arrives when it’s unexpected. Those carrying a lie live with anticipation the truth will eventually smack them in the face. There is no need gaze over the shoulder, as truth doesn’t hide or require a disguise.“

—  Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

„The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

„You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„Both truth and falsity rule the world. Falsity by virtue of numbers and truth by virtue of control.“

—  - Goa

„I'd rather hear a truth that'll make me cry than a lie that'll make me smile!“

—  Luiz Carlos Alborghetti Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure 1945 - 2009

„All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„On his central point, the £350m a week, this is a lie. He knows it is a lie and endlessly repeating it does not make it the truth.“

—  Vince Cable British Liberal Democrat politician 1943

„To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.“

—  John Locke English philosopher and physician 1632 - 1704

„And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise,
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892

„It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.“

—  David Levithan American author and editor 1972

„There's an insistence that the Being that's spoken into being through Truth is Good. This is the most profound ever. It is also the most believable idea ever. What cures in therapy is Truth. Of course, you must encounter the things that you're afraid of, but this is enacted Truth, because if you know that there's something you need to do by your own set of rules and you're avoiding it, then you're enacting a lie. You're not speaking the lie, but you're enacting it, and that's the same thing: untruth. If you can confront If I can get you to face what it is that you know you shouldn't be avoiding, then what's happening is that we're both partaking in the process of you attempting to act out your deepest truth. That improves people's lives radically. The clinical evidence for that is overwhelming. We know that if you expose people to the things that they're afraid of and are avoiding, they get better. You have to do it carefully, cautiously, and with their approval and participation. Of all the things that clinicians have established that's credible, that's #1. It's redemptive insofar as both people are telling the truth. The difference between deception and repression is very small. People can handle earthquakes and cancer and even death, but they can't handle deception. They can't handle the rug being pulled out from underneath them by people who they love and trust. This does them in. It makes them ill, it hurts them psycho-physiologically, and worse than that it makes them cynical, bitter, vicious, and resentful. And then they also start to act all that out in the world, and that makes it worse.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

„Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.“

—  Rachel Cohn American writer 1968

„If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.“

—  Epictetus philosopher from Ancient Greece 50 - 138

„Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?“

—  Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016

„What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.“

—  Tana French, In the Woods