Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.
Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?
Bryan Bedford in Miracle on 34th Street
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
Guzmán: "Because she supports me. Unconditionally."
Nadia: "That isn't love, it's devotion, like you would have for a God. People who love you tell you the truth."
Nadia: "That isn't love, it's devotion, like you would have for a God. People who love you tell you the truth."
Nadia Shana in Élite - Season 2 Episode 1
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
Ian Malcolm: "I told the truth."
Peter Ludlow: "Your version of it."
Ian Malcolm: "There are no versions of the truth."
Peter Ludlow: "Your version of it."
Ian Malcolm: "There are no versions of the truth."
Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park - The Lost World
Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth!
I didn't realize how destructive the truth could be.
Zoe Collins in White Lines - Season 1 Episode 1
1The truth is always there, whether we see it or not - whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.
Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5
When the truth offends me, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.
Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
A man does not flee from truth.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Black Widow: "I don't know, the truth is a matter of circumstances. It's not all things to all people all the time, and neither am I."
Captain America: "That's a tough way to live."
Black Widow: "It's a good way not to die though."
Captain America: "That's a tough way to live."
Black Widow: "It's a good way not to die though."
Black Widow in Captain America - The Winter Soldier
3It's the most heroic thing we can do now. Look the truth in the face.
Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones - Season 8 Episode 3
4People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
You will find that many of the truths we cling to, depend greatly on our own point of view.
It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
The truth isn't always to most exciting version of things, or the best, or the worst. It's somewhere inbetween. But it deserves to be heard and remembered. 'The truth will out', like someone said once. It remains.
Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why - Season 1 Episode 1
6Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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