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| And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward | | Bible | |
| And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs. | | Plato | |
| And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. (Judges 9:15) | | Bible | |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity | | David Hume | |
| Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. | | Josh Billings | |
| As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors. | | William James | |
| Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Buy the truth, and do not sell it | | Bible | |
| Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. | | Graham Greene | |
| Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails | | Clarence Darrow | |
| Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth | | Eric Hoffer | |
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| Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. | | Aesop | |
| During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act | | George Orwell | |
| Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. | | Confucius | |
| Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either | | Aesop | |
| 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 | |
