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

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens

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

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

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
Newt Gingrich

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope

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

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

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

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

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry Miller