If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will Rogers

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

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

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David Thoreau

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone