Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

20.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

21.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

23.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

24.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

25.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

26.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

29.

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

30.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

31.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

32.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

33.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

34.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

35.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

36.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

37.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

38.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

41.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

42.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

43.

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

Diderot, Denis

44.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

45.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

46.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

47.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

48.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

49.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

50.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier