"Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this."

"One of the sublimest things in this world is plain truth."

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

"We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation."

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose."

"The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love."

"Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their divineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness."

"Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order."

"How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!"

"Truth needs no flowers of speech."

"There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly — it is incredible to other men."

"In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him."

"The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not."

"Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it — a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power."

"Truth will ever be unpalatable to those who are determined not to relinquish error."

"Colonel: In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander. All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws, and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths."

"Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi: Truth fears nothing but concealment."

"God forbid the truth should be concealed any way."

"Fiction is never admitted where truth may work."

"We live in an age, when truth passes for nothing in the world, and swearing and foreswearing is taken for a thing of course. Had his zeal been half so much for truth as it was for falsehood, it had been a commendable zeal."

"Ingenuity is one thing, and simple testimony another, and plain truth, I take it, needs no flowers of speech."

"Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged."

"Ay, ay, let truth come out, in God's name."

"There are various kinds of untruth. There is an absolute untruth, an untruth in itself, that no addition or qualification can make true: as, if a man says a thing he saw was black, when it was white, as he remembers and knows. So, as to knowing the truth. A man may know it, and yet it may not be present in his mind at the moment of speaking; or, if the fact is present to his mind, it may not occur to him to be of any use to mention it. For example, suppose a man was asked whether a writing was necessary in a contract for the making and purchase of goods, he might well say "Yes," without adding that payment on receipt of the goods, or part, would suffice. He might well think that the question he was asked was whether a contract for goods to be made required a writing like a contract for goods in existence. If he was writing on the subject, he would, of course, state the exception or qualification."

"Truth and falsehood, it has been well said, are not always opposed to each other like black and white, but oftentimes, and by design, are made to resemble each other so as to be hardly distinguishable; just as the counterfeit thing is counterfeit because it resembles the genuine thing."

"The interests of truth and justice must be allowed to prevail."

"Truths that wake To perish never."

"The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell (Strange Mansion!) in the bottom of a well: Questions are then the Windlass and the rope That pull the grave old Gentlewoman up."

"Truth is the same in all persuasions."

"Truth is the thing that we are enquiring after; and this is the thing we would have prevail, and I hope shall in all cases."

"Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech."

"Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."

"And friendly free discussion calling forth From the fair jewel Truth its latent ray."

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

"Veritas visu et mora, falsa festinatione et incertis valescunt."

"Tell truth, and shame the devil."

"Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named?"

"I have ever thought, Nature doth nothing so great for great men, As when she's pleas'd to make them lords of truth. Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end."

"Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth."

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

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth!"

"Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd; Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermix'd."

"And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill."

"When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies."

"Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men."

"It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth."

"It seems to have been supposed, at one time, that saying, 'Tell the truth' meant, in effect, 'Tell a lie.'"

"Die Treue warnt vor drohenden Verbrechen, Die Rachgier spricht von den begangenen."

"Let us seek the solution of these doubts at the bottom of the inexhaustible well, where Heraclitus says that truth is hidden."

"Involuta veritas in alto latet."