Truth. wow.

if i tell the truth, that means to me that i have stated what i know, and not what i've made up. i've told what is true to me...may be what i've heard and am mistaken, but i'm telling what i know. To lie takes effort, and creativity. To lie, i must think of something other than the facts that i am aware of.

May already be here, but wiki says this:

The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The term has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree. Various theories of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute.

i agree.