Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Robert H. Schuller

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci