Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

17.

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

18.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

20.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

27.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

31.

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

Tomlin, Lily

32.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

33.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Walters, Hellmut

36.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

40.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

42.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

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

44.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

45.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

46.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

47.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

48.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.