Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

17.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

18.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

19.

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

Tom Bissell

20.

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

21.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

22.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

23.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Galileo Galilei

25.

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

26.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

29.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

Pindar

34.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

35.

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

Sontag, Susan

36.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

37.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

38.

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

39.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

44.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

45.

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

Voltaire

46.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

47.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

48.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

50.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma