The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. Alfred Adler on truth
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. Joseph Conrad on truth
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Tacitus on truth
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett on truth
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard on truth
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. Otto von Bismarck on truth
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. Graham Greene on truth
You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey on truth
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Hypatia on truth
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Leonard Cohen on truth
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton on truth
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Albert Pike on truth
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Charles Lamb on truth
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes on truth
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. John Stuart Mill on truth
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. Publilius Syrus on truth
Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living. Thomas a Kempis on truth
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. Joseph Conrad on truth
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. William Penn on truth
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. William Penn on truth