The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle
10,800

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle
10,762
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. -Ann Landers
8,859

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde
8,600

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde
8,598
In war, truth is the first casualty. -Aeschylus
7,494

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson
7,122

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes
5,635
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei
5,268

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare
5,126

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi
4,593
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. -Michel de Montaigne
3,862

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

Scott Westerfeld
3,609

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone
3,352
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. -Matthew Arnold
1,337

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield
1,324

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier
1,314
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. -Henri Frederic Amiel
1,278

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Wendell Phillips
1,254

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand
1,212
The truth is that men are tired of liberty. -Benito Mussolini
1,195

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

James Madison
1,182

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright
1,129
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. -Charles Peguy
1,121

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal
1,078

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame de Stael
1,044
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. -Henry David Thoreau
462

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Lawrence Durrell
405

The truth of the matter is that facts seldom prove the truth. Why? Because truth is inly found in a journey.

Harold J. Duarte bernhardt
385
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. -Albert Einstein
360