Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
—Bible
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
—Clarence Darrow
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
—David Shore
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
—Josh Billings
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.
—Kahlil Gibran
Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.
—Lenin
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
—Mark Twain
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
—Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
—Niels Bohr
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
—Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
—Scott Westerfeld
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
—Scott Westerfeld
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
—Arthur Conan Doyle