I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. – Michel de Montaigne
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. – Hypatia
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. – Bette Davis
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. – George Santayana
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. – James Russell Lowell
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. – James Russell Lowell
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. – Mason Cooley
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. – James Allen
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. – Sophocles
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. – James Russell Lowell
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth. – Sara Teasdale
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. – Thomas Huxley
The words of truth are simple. – Aeschylus
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. – Ramakrishna
Too much truth is uncouth. – Franklin P. Adams
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. – Thomas Huxley
