I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Blaise Pascal

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Simone Weil

Science is but an image of the truth.

Francis Bacon

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean de La Fontaine

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Simone Weil

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Daniel Webster

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Dickens

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Otto von Bismarck

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

William James

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

Albert Einstein

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Francesco Petrarca

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Nikola Tesla