You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, -- "Let there be truth between us two forever more."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

- Bob Dylan

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

- Rene Descartes

How the line in life, nature, science, phylosophy, religion constantly returns into itself. The opposite poles become one when the circle is completed. All truth revolves about one center. All is a manifestation of one law.

- Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Actions lie louder than words.

- Carolyn Wells

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

- John Stuart Mill

Live truth instead of expressing it.

- Elbert Hubbard

The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

- Francis Bacon

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

- Talmud

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

- Parker J. Palmer



What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

- Lillian Hellman



Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

- Madame de Stael



In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

- Madame de Stael



Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

- Lillian Hellman



An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov



I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

- Harry S Truman



Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn



A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

- Thomas Mann



To tell the truth is revolutionary.

- Antonio Gramsci



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.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



A belief is not true because it is useful.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel



At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

- Howard Dean



In war, truth is the first casualty.

- Aeschylus



Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

- Albert Einstein



I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

- Isaac Newton



No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

- Francis Bacon



There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

- Mark Twain



Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

- Edmund Burke



In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

- A. Philip Randolph



All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

- Galileo Galilei



A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.

- Alfred Adler



As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

- Baruch Spinoza



Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

- Hannah Arendt



A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

- Thomas Mann



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

- Plato



The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

- Henry David Thoreau



The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and blows them out.

- Lizette W. Reese



Truth is powerful and it prevails.

- Sojourner Truth