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Some inspirational quotes on truth, and some are funny:

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
~Stopford Brooke

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
~Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~Oscar Wilde

First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along.
~Alexander Humbold

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

Turns out if you never lie, there’s always someone mad at you.
~Scott Westerfeld

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Arthur Baldwin

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
~ Adrian Rodgers

You never find yourself until you face the truth
~ Pearl Bailey

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
~ Goethe

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
~Albert Einstein

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
~Tryon Edwards

What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.
~Linda Ellinor

There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
~Soren Kierkegaard

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~Edith Sitwell

When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. ~Anonymous

The truth is more important than the facts.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
~Niels Bohr

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~Mark Twain

All generalizations, including this one, are false.
~Mark Twain

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