Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

21.

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.

22.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

24.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

25.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

26.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

27.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

31.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

32.

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

33.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

36.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

37.

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

Norris, Frank

38.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

42.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

43.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

44.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.