“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.”
“The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.”
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
“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.”
“Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.”
“The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.”
“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.”
“Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.”
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
“We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.”
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
“I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.”
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
“For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
“The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.”
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”
“To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.”
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
“Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”