To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. – Victor Hugo
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. – Aldous Huxley
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. – Leonardo da Vinci
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. – Epictetus
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. – Rabindranath Tagore
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. – Soren Kierkegaard
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. – Albert Schweitzer
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. – William Blake
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. – Rabindranath Tagore
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. – Arthur Schopenhauer
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. – Ellen DeGeneres
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. – Soren Kierkegaard
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see. – Hillary Clinton
