Truth

• "Lies, however numerous, will be caught by truth when it rises up." - Anonymous

• "The voice of truth is easily known." - Anonymous

• "The most difficult thing in life to do is explaining truth." - Anonymous

• "Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it." - Paramahansa Yogananda

• "In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt." - Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei

• "I give you bitter pills with sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar." - Stanislaw Lec

• "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution." - Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

• "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend." - Rabindranath Tagore

• "The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth." - Niels Bohr

• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

• "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

• "The quest to abandon illusions about our condition is also a quest to abandon conditions which support illusions." - Anonymous

• "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best!" - Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage

• "Show up & choose to be present, pay attention to what has heart and meaning, tell the truth without blame or judgment, and be open rather than attached to the outcome." - Angeles Arrien

• "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world." - Frederick Douglass

• "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness." - Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

• "The language of truth is unadorned and always simple." - Marcellinus Ammianus

• "He said true things, but called them by wrong names." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• "Tell the truth and run." - Yugoslavian proverb

• "The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." - Stephen King

• "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak." - Neil Gaiman, Dream Country

• "It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear." - Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

• "Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it." - H. L. Mencken

• "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." - H. L. Mencken

• "If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things." -- René Descartes, Discours de la Methode

• "Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through." - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)

• "Who dares / To say that he alone has found the truth?" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus

• "A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth." - Thomas Carlyle

• "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers." - George Prentice

• "I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell." - Mark Twain

• "Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it." - Mark Twain

• "There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times." - Richard Whately

• "There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." - Oscar Wilde

• "I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him." - Abraham Lincoln

• "Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

• "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell

• "The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa." - Robert A. Heinlein

• "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

• "Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written." - Amos Bronson Alcott

• "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." - Josh Billings

• "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. " - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it." - A. A. Hodge

• "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud

• "Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth." - Mahatma Gandhi

• "Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails." - Clarence Darrow

• "Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth." - Orson Scott Card

• "Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent." - Adolf Hitler

• "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." - Max Born (1882-1970), German physicist

• "Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye." - Thomas Jefferson

• "Peace if possible, truth at all costs." - Martin Luther

• "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

• "My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long and slow growth and are firmly rooted. But the great blow which fell on me [Huxley's little son had died some days earlier] seemed to stir them to their foundation, and had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them -- and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is -- Oh devil! Truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

• "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

• "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth." - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

• "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaak Newton (1642-1727)

• "There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity." - George Sarton (1884-1956)

• "Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth. (This is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.) There is the truth you tell to casual strangers and acquaintances. There is the truth you tell to your general circle of friends and family members. There is the truth you tell to only one or two people in your entire life. There is the truth you tell to yourself. And finally, there is the truth that you do not admit even to yourself. And it's that fifth truth that provides some of the most interesting drama ..." - J. Michael Straczynski (creator of the TV-serial Babylon 5)

• Truth will triumph. It always does. However, I figure truth is a variable, so we're right back where we started from. - Galloway Gallegher, in "The Proud Robot" by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

• "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

• "Any fool can be honest, for it is only what he knows. A wise man is aware of when to share the truth." Vedran Empress Yoweri XXIII, CY 2932.

• "Nothing is true. All is permitted." Last words of Hassan i Sabbah X these are NOT the last words of any "Hassan i Sabbah X". They DO occur in the Thomas Common translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra

• "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

• "the pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple" - Oscar Wilde

• "Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few." -- George Berkeley

• "Honesty is the best policy, therefore by the prosses of elimanation, dishonesty is the second best policy." - Anonymous