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| False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. | | Alexander Pope | |
| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. | | Mark Twain | |
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| For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right | | William Cowper | |
| For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. | | John Dryden | |
| For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. | | Lord Byron | |
| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth | | Herman Melville | |
| From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. | | Tom Stoppard | |
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| He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue | | John Ruskin | |
| He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright | | Blaise Pascal | |
| How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. | | Harry S Truman | |
| I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. | | Harry S Truman | |
| I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 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 | | Michel de Montaigne | |
