People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

20.

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

Walters, Hellmut

21.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

22.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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.

26.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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.

30.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

31.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

32.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

36.

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

37.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

39.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

40.

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

Rosten, Leo

41.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

43.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

44.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

45.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

48.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

49.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.