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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
-Pearl Bailey
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
-James Baldwin
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
-James Baldwin
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
-Hosea Ballou
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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
-Leonard Barnes
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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
-Jean Baudrillard
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
-Walter Benjamin
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
-Bernard Berenson
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
-Irving Berlin
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I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
-Bible
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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.
-Bible
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Seek and you will find.
-Bible
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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. Esdras 3:10
-Bible
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The truth shall set you free.
-Bible
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Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
-Ambrose Bierce
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
-Josh Billings
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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
-Wayne Birmingham
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
-Otto von Bismarck
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
-William Blake
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
-William Blake
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
-William Blake
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The great seal of truth is simplicity.
-Herman Boerhaave
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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.
-Neils Bohr
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Books about Truth
