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

21.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

22.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

25.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

26.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

West, Jessamyn

28.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

34.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Sontag, Susan

37.

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

38.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

42.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

45.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

46.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

49.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

50.

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