Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. William Hague on truth
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. Alfred Adler on truth
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. Lily Tomlin on truth
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. John Shelby Spong on truth
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Ansel Adams on truth
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. David Herbert Lawrence on truth
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham on truth
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. George Saunders on truth
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco on truth
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. John Kenneth Galbraith on truth
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. Bryant H. McGill on truth
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings on truth
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle on truth
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf on truth
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. Charles Caleb Colton on truth
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore. Javier Bardem on truth
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Andre Maurois on truth
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. James Madison on truth
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. Giordano Bruno on truth
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. June Jordan on truth