In this world of misery, disease, old age, and death, there is no other protection, refuge or help than our own practice of the truth. Others are powerless; as we sow we reap. - Unknown
In war, truth is the first casualty. - Unknown
In your admiration for truth do not forget that truth can sometimes be as foul as a lie. - Austin O’Malley
Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. - Robert M. Pirsig
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. - Thomas Huxley
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. - Horace Mann
It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it. - John Locke
It is not telling the truth that is difficult, it is telling the whole truth. - Unknown
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. - K. T. Jong
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. - Austin O’Malley
It only takes a few minutes to see the truth of an entire lifetime. - Scott Calvin
It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau
Let us begin by commiting ourselves to the truth – to see it like it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. - Richard Nixon
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn. - Brigham Young
Lots of times we don’t even tell people the truth of what we really think because we’re afraid to hurt them and we want to save their feelings, whereas it would be better for them if we were just lovingly honest with them. - Unknown
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe. - William Somerset Maugham
Man is here to search for truth, and to search until he finds it. And he will enjoy it all the more that he has had to search for it. - Reuen Thomas
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as nothing happened. - Winston Churchill
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. - George R.R. Martin
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. - Robert Frost
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