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

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

"Involuta veritas in alto latet."

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

"Veritatem dies aperit."

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

"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."

"Veritatis simplex oratio est."

"Dum omnia quærimus, aliquando ad verum, ubi minime expectavimus, pervenimus."

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

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

"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."

"Naked Truth needs no shift."

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

"Veritas odit moras."

"Truths that wake To perish never."

"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."

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

"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."

"Pericula veritati sæpe contigua."

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

"Children and fooles speake true."

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

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

"Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine."

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

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

"When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire; Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar."

"The truth shall make you free."

"There is no truth in him."

"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."

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

"Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum."

"Ridentem dicere verum, Quid vetat."

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

"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."

"Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a foot-ball, and it will be round and full at evening."

"One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed."

"But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."

"Fiction is never admitted where truth may work."

"Nuda veritas. (Nudaque veritas)."

"Veritatem laborare nimis sæpe, aiunt, extingui nunquam."