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  2. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

  3. A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

  4. A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

  5. A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

  6. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

  7. A vague sense of Nature's Unity, blended with a dim perception of an all-pervading Spiritual Essence, has been remarked among the earliest manifestations of the Human Mind. Everywhere it was the dim remembrance, uncertain and indefinite, of the original truth taught by God to the first men.

  8. Absolute truth is indestructible. Being indestructible, it is eternal. Being eternal, it is self-existent. Being self-existent, it is infinite. Being infinite, it is vast and deep. Being vast and deep, it is transcendental and intelligent.

  9. Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

 10. All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

 11. All truths are not to be told.

 12. All truths are Truths of Period, and not truths for eternity; that whatever great fact has had strength and vitality enough to make itself real, whether of religion, morals, government, or of whatever else, and to find place in this world, has been a truth for the time, and as good as men were capable of receiving.

 13. An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

 14. An honest man is always a child.

 15. An honest man's the noblest work of God.

 16. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

 17. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

 18. Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

 19. Children and fools speak true.

 20. Every truth is true only up to a point. Beyond that, by way of counter-point, it becomes untruth.

 21. Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth.

 22. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

 23. For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

 24. 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.

 25. Her terrible tale You can't assail, With truth it quite agrees; Her taste exact Her faultless fact Amounts to a disease.

 26. History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

 27. Honesty is the best policy.

 28. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

 29. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill.

 30. I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

 31. I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

 32. If the slayer thinks that he kills, and if the slain thinks that he dies, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.

 33. If you are sincere, you have success in your heart, And whatever you do succeeds.

 34. In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

 35. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

 36. 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.

 37. Lunatics, drunkards and children sometimes give out the truth unconsciously, as if inspired by heaven.

 38. Man with the burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of truth On which his soul may sail -Sail on the sea of death, For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but truth.

 39. No legacy is so rich as honesty.

 40. No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

 41. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

 42. O thou who art enamoured with the beauties of Truth, and hast fixed thy heart on the simplicity of her charms, hold fast thy fidelity unto her, and forsake her not: the constancy of thy virtue shall crown thee with honour.

 43. One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

 44. Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

 45. Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

 46. Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

 47. Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellowmen.

 48. Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

 49. Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

 50. Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

 51. Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.

 52. The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplace, but which all experience refutes.

 53. The essence of Truth is eternal; Individual truths wax and wane.

 54. The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

 55. The gift of Truth conquers all gifts. The taste of Truth conquers all sweetness. The joy of Truth conquers all pleasures. The loss of desires conquers all sorrows.

 56. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

 57. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

 58. The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

 59. The King of Truth is the king of kings. His ancestry is of the purest and the highest. He not only rules the four quarters of the world, but he is also Lord of Wisdom and Protector of all Virtuous Teachings.

 60. The language of truth is simple.

 61. The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.

 62. The nearer one approaches the Truth, the happier one becomes. For the essential nature of Truth is positive Absolute Bliss.

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

 64. The opposite of what is rumoured about men and things is often the truth.

 65. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

 66. The spirits of truth and falsehood Struggle within the heart of man; Truth born out of the spring of Light, Falsehood from the well of darkness. And according as man inherits truth So will he avoid darkness.

 67. The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

 68. The Supreme Truth exists both internally and externally, in the moving and non-moving. He is beyond the power of material senses to see or know. Although, far, far away, he is also near to all.

 69. The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

 70. There are four truths in this world: first, all living beings rise from ignorance; second, all objects of craving desire are impermanent, uncertainty and suffering; third, all the existing things are also impermanent, uncertainty and suffering; fourth, there is nothing that can be called an "ego," and there is no such thing as "mine" in all the world.

 71. There are three parts in truth: first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it.

 72. There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

 73. There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

 74. There are two kinds of truth: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

 75. There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

 76. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

 77. There is nothing so powerful as truth; and often nothing so strange.

 78. There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

 79. They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive and follow true desires.

 80. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

 81. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

 82. To know the truth is easy; to follow it is difficult.

 83. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; and one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to be able to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.

 84. To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

 85. Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

 86. Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

 87. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.

 88. Truth does not do so much good in the world, as the appearance of it does evil.

 89. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

 90. Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

 91. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

 92. Truth is always congruous and agrees with itself; every truth in the universe agrees with all others.

 93. Truth is always straight forward.

 94. Truth is always the strongest argument.

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

 96. Truth is but one; thy doubts are of thine own raising. He who made virtues what they are, planted also in thee a knowledge of their pre-eminence. Act as Soul dictates to thee, and the end shall be always right.

 97. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

 98. Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

 99. Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

100. Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

101. Truth is the secret of eloquence and virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

102. Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

103. Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

104. Truth lies wrapped up and hidden in the depths.

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

106. Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

107. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

108. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

109. Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.

110. Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water.

111. Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem.

112. Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time.

113. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

114. What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

115. When in doubt tell the truth.

116. When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

117. When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force than on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

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

119. You need not tell the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.