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| It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha | | Galileo Galilei | |
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| It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. | | Mark Twain | |
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| Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. | | Margaret Lee Runbeck | |
| Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will. | | Bruce Lee | |
| Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man | | James Thurber | |
| Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it | | Mark Twain | |
| Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... | | Mark Twain | |
| No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition | | William Osler | |
| No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true. | | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish | | David Hume | |
