The best mind-altering drug is truth.--Lily Tomlin

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.--Robert Louis Stevenson ("Virginibus Puerisque")

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!--Charles Tart

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.--Merry Browne

The enemies of the truth are always awfully nice.--Christopher Morley

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.--C. S. Lewis

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.--John Kenneth Galbraith

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.--Utterly Russell

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.--Thomas Merton

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.--Ivan Panin

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.--Dorothy L. Sayers (Gaudy Night)

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.--Frederick II, the Great

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have "arrived" believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.--Dale Turner

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.--Henry George

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.--Peter Medawar

I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.--Sir Issac Newton

I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.--Charles Richet

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.--Simone de Beauvoir

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.--Orville Wright

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.--Albert Einstein

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.--Rabindranath Tagore

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.--Jesse Ventura 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.--Mark Twain

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.--William Lloyd Garrison (Free Speech and Free Inquiry)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.--John Lilly

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.--Delores Seats

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.--A. A. Hodge

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.--Goethe

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.--Samuel Johnson (Boswells's Life of Johnson)

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.--Giordano Bruno

It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.--Sidney Smith

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.--Henry David Thoreau

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.--Louisa May Alcott

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth--to see it like it is, and tell it like it is--to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.--Richard Nixon

Lying is done with words and also with silence.--Adrienne Rich

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.--Kahlil Gibran

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.--Sir Winston Churchill

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.--G. C. Lichtenberg

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.--Al Kersha

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.--Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.--Bertrand Russell

Opinion is a flitting thing
But Truth outlasts the Sun.--Emily Dickinson

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.--Neils Bohr

Science is not to be regarded merely as a storehouse of facts to be used for material purposes, but as one of the great human endeavors to be ranked with arts and religion as the guide and expression of man's fearless quest for truth.--Sir Richard Arman Gregory

Science is the search for truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponents, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, nor the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations…--Linus Pauling (No More War)

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.--Horace Mann

Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - June 24, 2003)

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.--Henry Wotton

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.--John Stuart Mill

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.--Buddha

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.--Maya Angelou (I Dream a World by Lanker)

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.--St. Augustine of Hippo

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth.--Thomas Huxley 

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.--Dame Rebecca West

The truth comes out in jokes.--Vicki Marsala

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.--Georges Braque (Pensées sur l'Art)

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.--Albert Schweitzer

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.--Pearl S. Buck

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.--George Santayana

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.--Wendell Phillips (Idols)

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.--Pope Jean Paul

Truth is violated by falsehood, but outraged by silence.--Anonymous

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.--Leo Tolstoy

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.--Miguel de Cervantes

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.--William Penn

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.--Phyllis Bottome (Under the Skin)

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.--W. Clement Stone

Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness.--Kathleen Pedersen

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.--John F. Kennedy

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.--Lucretia Mott

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.--Boris Pasternak

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.--Warren Bennis

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.--Elbert Hubbard (in An American Bible comp. By Alice Hubbard)

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, must be the truth.--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Sign of Four)

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.--Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.--Albert Einstein