There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on truth
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you. Vanessa Kerry on truth
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. Mason Cooley on truth
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid on truth
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka on truth
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Nicolaus Copernicus on truth
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. Peter Tosh on truth
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own. James Otis on truth
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles on truth
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Abu Bakr on truth
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. Lee Atwater on truth
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Mary Todd Lincoln on truth
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno on truth
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Franz Kafka on truth
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke on truth
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. Mohsen Makhmalbaf on truth
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. Paul Cezanne on truth
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells on truth