Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Seek truth and you will find a path. – Frank Slaughter
Truth bends abashed, and answers not. – Thomas Hardy, “An Impromptu to the Editor,” The Cornhill Magazine, January 1910
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. – Alphonse de Lamartine, “Marseillaise of Peace,” 1841
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. – Jean-Paul Sartre
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Truth is a great flirt. – Franz Liszt
I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reëstablish the truth. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot
All great truths begin as blasphemies. – George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska, 1919
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. – Simone de Beauvoir
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. – Attributed to James A. Garfield
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no truth. There is only perception. – Gustave Flaubert
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha
