I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

18.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

19.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

20.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

21.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

22.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

23.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

25.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

28.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

29.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

32.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

33.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

34.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

35.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

37.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

38.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

39.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

40.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

41.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

42.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

43.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

44.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

45.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

49.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

50.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.