What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon on truth
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. William Tecumseh Sherman on truth
When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing. Amber Frey on truth
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson on truth
All truth is not to be told at all times. Samuel Butler on truth
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. Samuel Butler on truth
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. Peter Abelard on truth
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. James Russell Lowell on truth
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. Abraham Maslow on truth
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel on truth
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. James A. Baldwin on truth
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. Stephen Fry on truth
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron on truth
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. Sidney Poitier on truth
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. Samuel Johnson on truth
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. Samuel Johnson on truth
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Samuel Johnson on truth