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

17.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

18.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

24.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

25.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

27.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

28.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

29.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

30.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

32.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

33.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

36.

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

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

39.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

40.

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

41.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

45.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

46.

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

Adler, Alfred

47.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

49.

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

Low, Albert

50.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul