I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

21.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Davies, Robertson

23.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

24.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

25.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

27.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

28.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

33.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

34.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

37.

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

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

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

Darrow, Clarence

40.

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

41.

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

Farnham, Eliza

42.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

43.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

47.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

48.

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

49.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

50.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark