Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt WhitmanIrrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors
Thomas HuxleyPure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri-Frederic AmielWe are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
Richard Dawkins'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsHe who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers (Basic Verities)
Charles PeguyThe folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us
Paul ValeryA lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord TennysonThe truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
Malcolm MuggeridgeScarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond HalleyA judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last.
Georges BatailleI know something about a part of David's body that will prove I'm telling the truth.
Rebecca LoosBigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it (Fireflies, 1928)
Rabindranath TagoreTruth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one
Konrad LorenzExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil GibranThere is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing; terrible, for He shall be Judge as well Saviour; and ye cannot face Him, ye cannot stand before Him, unless ye now give ear to His invitation
Henry MelvillTruth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
Taylor BranchThere are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie CurieTo tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
Helena ChristensenFiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen KingNagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith SummerskillTechnology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary: The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels BohrWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranThe truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
Lana TurnerAny person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity
David HumeOnly the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret FullerChase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence DarrowFor great is truth, and shall prevail
Thomas BrooksTruth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne
James Russell LowellFor want of me the world's course will not fail:
When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
The truth is great, and shall prevail,
When none cares whether it prevail or not.
Coventry PatmoreIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia WoolfAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W Somerset MaughamExactitude is not truth
Henri MatisseAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur SchopenhauerBeauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Gustave CourbetSometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination.
Jules VerneEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinDo I say 'No, my client isn't gay' when I know that he is? Of course. Does telling the truth mater? If it's showbiz... rock 'n' roll... then absolutely not. Did Freddie Starr actually eat a hamster? No, he didn't.
Max CliffordThere are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North WhiteheadAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawThe greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles HareTruth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald FordA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max PlanckSince obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
D H LawrenceFor truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel ButlerWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao TzuA truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
William BlakeComedy has to be based on truth.
Sid CaesarOne truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer 
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