Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

19.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Adler, Alfred

21.

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

Low, Albert

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

24.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

25.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

27.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

29.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

30.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Pindar

34.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

41.

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

Davies, Robertson

42.

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

43.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

46.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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

49.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

50.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John