Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Tell the children the truth.
Bob Marley

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney Dangerfield

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire