Truth is like the stars:
it shows only in the darkness of the night.
Truth is like all beautiful things in this world:
it reveals its attractiveness only to those
who have first felt the influence of falsehood.
--Kahlil Gibran

It is not the truth that makes man great,
but man who makes the truth great.
--Confucius

Integrity has no need of rules.
--Albert Camus

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth
when you know that you would lie
if you were in his place.
--H.L. Mencken
 

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
--Frank Crane

We know the truth, not only by the reason,
but also by the heart.
--Blaise Pascal

I never give them hell;
I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
--Harry S. Truman
 

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

A truth which needs to be proven is a half-truth.
--Kahlil Gibran

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Rather than love,
than money, than fame,
give me truth.
--Henry David Thoreau

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--
deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--
but the myth-- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
--John F. Kennedy

The greatest friend of truth is time,
her greatest enemy is prejudice,
and her constant companion is humility.
--Charles Caleb Colton
 

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them.
--Madeleine L'Engle

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

Truth is the property of no individual,
but is the treasure of all men.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real art of conversation
is not only to say the right thing at the right place,
but to leave unsaid the wrong thing
at the tempting moment.
--Dorothy Neville