TRUTH : A lie travels around the world while truth is putting on her boots. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

TRUTH : A truth that's told with bad intent . . . beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

TRUTH : All great truths began as blasphemies. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

TRUTH : As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

TRUTH : Beauty is truth, truth beauty. (John Keats: English Romantic poet, 1795-1821)

TRUTH : Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

TRUTH : Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

TRUTH : Do not veil the truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth knowingly. (Koran: )

TRUTH : Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

TRUTH : Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

TRUTH : I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as "twas said to me." (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)

TRUTH : I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

TRUTH : I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. (Pietro Aretino: Italian satirist and dramatist, 1492-1556)

TRUTH : I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986)

TRUTH : If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

TRUTH : If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

TRUTH : If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

TRUTH : If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

TRUTH : If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

TRUTH : In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

TRUTH : In quarreling, the truth is always lost. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

TRUTH : It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923)

TRUTH : Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : Love truth, but pardon error. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

TRUTH : No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean. (Henry B. Adams: U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)

TRUTH : Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

TRUTH : On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

TRUTH : One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)

TRUTH : Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Eckhart: German theologian, philosopher, and mystic, 1260-1327)

TRUTH : Post-truth is pre-Fascism. (Timothy Snyder: U.S. professor of history at Yale University, Born 1969)

TRUTH : Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : Seek and keep the company of those who are looking for the truth, and run away from those who have found it. (Vaclav Havel: Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)

TRUTH : Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

TRUTH : Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. (Henry Wotton: English author, diplomat, and politician, 1568-1639)

TRUTH : The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

TRUTH : The first casualty when war comes is truth. (Hiram Johnson: U.S. governor and senator 1866-1945)

TRUTH : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist(s). (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

TRUTH : The man who speaks the truth is always at ease. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)

TRUTH : The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)

TRUTH : The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

TRUTH : The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinion. They use their opinions to form their ‘facts’. (Neil Strauss: U.S. author, journalist, and ghost writer, Born 1969)

TRUTH : The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

TRUTH : The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. (Nadine Gordimer: South African writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923-2014)

TRUTH : The truth that makes men free is, for the most part, the truth which people prefer not to hear. (Herbert Agar: U.S. journalist and historian, 1897-1980)

TRUTH : The truth will set you free. (John the Baptist: Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River (known also as St. John, the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy), 6 B.C.E.-30 A.D.)

TRUTH : The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

TRUTH : The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. (Agatha Christie: English author known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, 1890-1976)

TRUTH : The well of true wit is truth itself. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)

TRUTH : There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

TRUTH : There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

TRUTH : Time trieth truth. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : To thine own self be true / Thou canst not then be false to any man. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

TRUTH : Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

TRUTH : Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. (Amelia Barr: British teacher and novelist who wrote about the capacity of women to be successful, 1831-1919)

TRUTH : Truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny; will you not agree that a society which has lost sight of that, cannot survive? (Learned Hand: U.S. jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher, 1872-1961)

TRUTH : Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

TRUTH : Truth ever lovely—since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844)

TRUTH : Truth exists; only lies are invented. (George Braque: French painter, collagist, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, and a key figure in the development of Cubism, along with his colleague, Picasso, 1882-1963)

TRUTH : Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. (Mary A. Ward: British novelist, philanthropist, and political lobbyist, 1851-1920)

TRUTH : Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

TRUTH : Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

TRUTH : Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. (Unknown Source: )

TRUTH : Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

TRUTH : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

TRUTH : We can sing the truth and name the liars.... We must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants. (Salman Rushdie: British Indian novelist and essayist, Born 1947)

TRUTH : Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

TRUTH : Will we . . . become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality? (Christine Rosen: U.S. senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advance Studies in Culture, Born 1973)