A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Browne, physician, writer

 

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir, writer

 

The aim of the superior man is truth.

Confucius, philosopher

 

The truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist

 

The truth is often eclipsed, but never extinguished.

Livy, historian

 

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden, writer

 

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

President Thomas Jefferson

 

Truth never hurts the teller.

Robert Browning, poet

 

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when man is afraid of the light.

Plato, philosopher

 

We cannot exercise power except in the production of truth.

Michel Foucault, philosopher

 

The truth shall make you free.

John 8:32

 

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer

 

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor, writer

 

It takes two to speak truth...one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist

 

The dignity of truth is lost in much protesting.

Ben Jonson, playwright

 

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick the Great, king of Prussia