I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. – William Tecumseh Sherman
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson
All truth is not to be told at all times. – Samuel Butler
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. – James Russell Lowell
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. – Abraham Maslow
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. – Elie Wiesel
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. – James A. Baldwin
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. – Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. – David Bowie
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. – Simone de Beauvoir
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. – Quentin Tarantino
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. – Molly Ivins
We are free to yield to truth. – Horace
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. – John Locke
