One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. – Blaise Pascal
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. – Blaise Pascal
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. – Henry Rollins
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. – Giacomo Casanova
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
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. – Benjamin Disraeli
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. – George Eliot
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. – George Eliot
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. – Lewis Carroll
