“The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you… You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa”

“An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth she speaks, may not be the truth you think you hear.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

“One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.”

Barry Sanders (1938) American academic, author

“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

“One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. ”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

“Reality means you live until you die… the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author