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| The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it | | Clarence Darrow | |
| The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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| The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. | | Aristotle | |
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| The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin. | | Isaac Newton | |
| The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons | | William James | |
| The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. | | Graham Greene | |
| The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. | | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say | | Tom Stoppard | |
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| The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. | | Winston Churchill | |
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| The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. | | Ayn Rand | |
| The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth. | | Alfred Adler | |
| The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it | | Emile Zola | |
