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| Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. | | Confucius | |
| The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself. | | William Saroyan | |
| The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. | | Samuel Butler | |
| The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. | | John Stuart Mill | |
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| The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth | | Clarence Darrow | |
| The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
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| The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. | | Albert Einstein | |
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| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
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| The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie | | Ann Landers | |
| The object of the superior man is truth. | | Confucius | |
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| The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. | | Niels Bohr | |
| The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. | | Niels Bohr | |
