To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. – H. P. Lovecraft
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. – Bill Hicks
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. – William Butler Yeats
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. – George Canning
Tell the truth, but tell it slant. – Emily Dickinson
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. – Anatole France
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. – Nikolai Berdyaev
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. – Samuel Butler
The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. – Peter Abelard
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. – Simone de Beauvoir
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. – Harry S. Truman
The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon
