"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."

"Involuta veritas in alto latet."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"“What’s obvious,” Morrell observed, “isn’t always true.”"

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

"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."

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

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

"Pray over every truth ; for though the renewed heart is not " desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The truth shall make you free."

"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."

"There is no truth in him."

"Ridentem dicere verum, Quid vetat."

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

"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."