A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Chanakya

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney

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

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk