 
|
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
|
|
|
|
See it like it is!
-Herb Cohen
|
|
|
|
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
-Robert Collier
|
|
|
|
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
-Charles Caleb Colton
|
|
|
|
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
-Confucius
|
|
|
|
The object of the superior man is truth.
-Confucius
|
|
|
|
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
-James Fenimore Cooper
|
|
|
|
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
-William Cowper
|
|
|
|
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
-William Cowper
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 733.
|
|
|
|
Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
-Walter Cronkite
|
|
|
|
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
-Clarence Darrow
|
|
|
|
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
-Clarence Darrow
|
|
|
|
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
-Robertson Davies
|
|
|
|
Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
-Richard Deupree
|
|
|
|
I am always going to be true to myself.
-Princess of Wales Diana
|
|
|
|
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
-Charles Dickens
|
|
|
|
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
-Emily Dickinson
|
|
|
|
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
-Emily Dickinson
|
|
|
|
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
-Denis Diderot
|
|
|
|
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli
|
|
|
|
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli
|
|
|
|
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
-Benjamin Disraeli
|
|
|
|
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet"
|
|
|
|
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
-Lawrence Durrell
|
|
|
|
The real truth was taken by pirates and is at the bottom of the ocean. You will have to go deep to find it.
-James Dye
|
|
Books about Truth
