Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. Robert Anton Wilson on truth
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. Christian Nestell Bovee on truth
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. John le Carre on truth
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. Friedrich Schiller on truth
The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line. Pat Robertson on truth
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. Jorge Luis Borges on truth
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. Albert Pike on truth
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. Jean de la Bruyere on truth
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens on truth
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville on truth
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Herman Melville on truth
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. Ludwig Wittgenstein on truth
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. Louisa May Alcott on truth
I can take any truth just don't lie to me. Barbra Streisand on truth
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. Franz Kafka on truth
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. Umberto Eco on truth
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Dick Clark on truth
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. Johann Lamont on truth