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.

17.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

18.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

19.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

20.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Sontag, Susan

24.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Diderot, Denis

26.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

27.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

31.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

34.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

35.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

36.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

37.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

39.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

40.

It is the truth that irritates a person.