Truth

"It was as true," said Mr. Barkis,… "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."

"The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true."

"When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song."

"The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship."

"Vincer veris."

"But above all things truth beareth away the victory."

"Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view."

"Alius quidam veterum pœtarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriæ non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit."

"Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines."

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

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

"Ridentem dicere verum, Quid vetat."

"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."

"The truth shall make you free."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Children and fooles speake true."

"Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex."

"Pericula veritati sæpe contigua."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

"Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues."

"What matter that the man stands for much I cannot love—the moment he touches the realms of truth he enters my world and is my friend."

"In the same way as you know that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles: that this is sufficient, will be denied by no one whose brain is sound, and who does not go dreaming of evil spirits inspiring us with false ideas like the true. For the truth is the index of itself and of what is false."

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

"The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance."

"A man who behaves like a damp reed towards his fellow men does not tell the truth either."

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

"Every step forward in our certain knowledge of nature is always a step toward the truth of things and, ultimately, toward Truth with a capital T."

"The present article is almost wholly devoted to a single problem—the definition of truth. Its task is to construct—with reference to a given language—a materially adequate and formally correct definition of the term 'true sentence. This problem, which belongs to the classical problems of philosophy, raises considerable difficulties. For although the meaning of the term 'true sentence' in colloquial language seems to be quite clear and intelligible, all attempts to define this meaning more precisely have hitherto been fruitless, and many investigations in which this term has been used and which started with apparently evident premisses have often led to paradoxes and antinomies (for which, however, a more or less satisfactory solution has been found). The concept of truth shares in this respect the fate of other analogous concepts in the domain of the semantics of language."

"I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth."

"It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear."

"I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell."

"It is a confusion to present the items of one sort in the idioms of another -- without awareness. For to do this is not just to cross two different sorts; it is to confuse them. It is to mistake, for example, the theory for the fact, the for the , the myth for history, the model for the thing and the metaphor for the face of literal truth."

"A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to."

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

"Truth was the only daughter of Time."

"To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble."

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie."

"Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better."

"We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.... Your prayers for my present and future felicity are received with gratitude; and I sincerely wish, Gentlemen, that you may in your social and individual capacities taste those blessings, which a gracious God bestows upon the righteous."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange."

"Just as a vagrant accused of stealing a carrot from a field stands before a comfortably seated judge who keeps up an elegant flow of queries, comments and witticisms while the accused is unable to stammer a word, so truth stands before an intelligence which is concerned with the elegant manipulation of opinions."

"Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered the universe"), one of the eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley."