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

19.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

20.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

21.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

22.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

30.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

31.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

39.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

40.

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

Edith Sitwell

41.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

42.

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

Pascal, Blaise

43.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

44.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

45.

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

46.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

48.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

50.

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