In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

22.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

25.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

Renard, Jules

28.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

29.

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

Rosten, Leo

30.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

31.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

33.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

34.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

35.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

36.

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

Walters, Hellmut

37.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

38.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

40.

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

41.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

42.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

43.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

46.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

47.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

48.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

49.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

50.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.