But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

17.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

18.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

19.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

21.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

23.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

24.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

26.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

28.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

30.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

31.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

34.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

35.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

36.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

38.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

39.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

41.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

42.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

44.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

45.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

46.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

47.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

48.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

49.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

50.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont