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
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. Mason Cooley
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka
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
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. Peter Tosh
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
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Abu Bakr
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
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
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno
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
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. Paul Cezanne
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. Simone Weil
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. Joseph Joubert