I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Malcolm X

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

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

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats