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.

16.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

18.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

20.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

23.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

24.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

25.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

26.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

27.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

28.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

29.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

31.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

32.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

33.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

34.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

35.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

36.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

38.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

40.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

41.

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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

43.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

44.

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

Walters, Hellmut

45.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.