For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
Some people handle the truth carelessly; Others never touch it at all.
Truth for him was a moving target; he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.
Seeing's believing - but feeling is God's own truth.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup.