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

17.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

19.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

23.

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

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Confucius

26.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

27.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

28.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

29.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

30.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

31.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

32.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

33.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

34.

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

35.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

36.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

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

39.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

40.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

42.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

43.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

49.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

50.

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

Hesiod