Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. – Theodor Adorno
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. – John Stuart Mill
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it. – Clarence Darrow
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. – Horace Mann
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. – Christopher Hitchens
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. – Malcolm X
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. – Vivien Leigh
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper
Truth is a tendency. – R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. – Mencius
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. – Walter Cronkite
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. – Albert Pike
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. – Jean-Luc Godard
