There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. Nikolai Berdyaev
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. Henry Louis Gates
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. Thomas Aquinas
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Samuel Butler
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. Samuel Butler
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. William Butler Yeats
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. Simone Weil
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. Rush Limbaugh
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. Harry S. Truman
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. George Harrison
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. Jean-Paul Sartre
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. Friedrich Durrenmatt
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. William Tecumseh Sherman