"Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it."

"Involuta veritas in alto latet."

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."

"Truths that wake To perish never."

"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."

"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."

"Naked Truth needs no shift."

"For oh, 'twas nuts to the Father of Lies, (As this wily fiend is named in the Bible) To find it settled by Laws so wise That the greater the truth, the worse the libel."

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi."

"Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam."

"Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"

"Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not."

"Tell the truth, then run."

"Truth is elusive to those who refuse to see with both eyes."

"Not a truth has to art or to science been given, But brows have ached for it, and souls toil'd and striven; And many have striven, and many have fail'd, And many died, slain by the truth they assail'd."

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older."

"When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours."

"But there is no veil like light—no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth."

"Children and fooles speake true."

"Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex."

"Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong."

"Truth eludes he who does not seek it with both eyes wide."

"Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne."

"Pericula veritati sæpe contigua."

"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake."

"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear."

"Put golden padlocks on Truth's lips, be callous as ye will, From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill."

"The god of the river ordeal will admire the hearts of those who bear words of truth."

"If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it. But if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it."

"There are cases when the simple truth is difficult to tell, When 'tis better that the truth should not be known, So we'd better leave her lying at the bottom of the well, And agree to let both truth and well alone."

"Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."

"Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light."

"Farewell then, verse, and love, and ev'ry toy, The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy; What right, what true, what fit we justly call, Let this be all my care—for this is all."

"Truth is the same in all persuasions."

"There is no truth in him."

"The truth shall make you free."

"Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la vérité."

"Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth."

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best!"

"The defendant in this case has attacked certain beliefs, thought by the Christian world to be sacred. Yet, after all, nothing is sacred but the truth, and by truth I mean what a man sincerely and honestly believes."

"La vérité ne fait pas tant de bien dans le monde, que ses apparences y font de mal."

"Nuda veritas. (Nudaque veritas)."