“Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?”
“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
“Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.”
“Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.”
“Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.”
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”
“Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.”
“A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.”
“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
“The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.”
“I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.”
“The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.”
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”
“The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.”
“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”
“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
“I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
“Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”
“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
“I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.”
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
“A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”