The truth shall make you free.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
