“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”