Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Rabindranath Tagore
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered. Ron White
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. M. Russell Ballard
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. Mitt Romney
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed. H. L. Mencken
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Lily Tomlin
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. Thomas Paine
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. Charles Darwin
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Stephen Leacock
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. Charles Peguy
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Ambrose Bierce
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. Malcolm Muggeridge
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. Warren Buffett
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. William James
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. William James
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. Aldous Huxley