1. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. - James Madison 

2. Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. - Louisa May Alcott 

3. Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. - Louisa May Alcott 

4. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. - Paramahansa Yogananda 

5. But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. - Christopher Columbus 

6. Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. - P. T. Barnum 

7. There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. - Louis Farrakhan 

8. If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. - E. O. Wilson 

9. Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast. - Tom Waits 

10. I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. - Colin Kaepernick 

11. Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive. - Ravi Zacharias 

12. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. - Gloria Estefan 

13. To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. - Bayard Rustin 

14. You have to tell each other the truth, you cannot be nice and happy when we want to achieve so much as a team and a club. - Virgil van Dijk 

15. I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth. - Sylvester Stallone 

16. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. - Jeremy Bentham 

17. Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. - Ice Cube 

18. The truth is that transitioning to clean energy like wind and solar will create millions of new, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and spur economic growth - all while avoiding the inevitable, significant damages our economy will suffer should we keep building more pipelines. - Tom Steyer 

19. A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck 

20. We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. - Lucretia Mott 

21. Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman. - Gal Gadot 

22. Seek truth from facts. - Deng Xiaoping

 23. Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. - James D. Watson 

24. I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it. - Jose Antonio Vargas 

25. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. - Shakuntala Devi 

26. I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth. - Kit Harington 

27. When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public. - DeRay Mckesson

28. Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer. - Michael Hayden 

29. To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference. - Roman Abramovich 

30. It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. - Robert Fisk 

31. The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. - Claudio Monteverdi 

32. Photography is usually viewed as a solitary activity, but the truth of the matter is that people love to shoot together, compare notes, and just have fun with photography. - Scott Kelby 

33. When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. - Melanie Laurent 

34. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

35. Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. - Mark Twain 

36. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. - Confucius 

37. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill 

38. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill 

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

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

41. 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 

42. 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 

43. 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 

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

45. I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. - Benjamin Franklin 

46. Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. - Abraham Lincoln 

47. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein 

48. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein 

49. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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

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

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

53. Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

54. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

55. For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. - Maya Angelou 

56. All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided. - Maya Angelou 

57. The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. - Maya Angelou 

58. I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me. - Maya Angelou 

59. It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. - Maya Angelou 

60. I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' - Maya Angelou 

61. Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. - Maya Angelou 

62. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

63. All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? - Friedrich Nietzsche 

64. And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

65. One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

66. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

67. We have art in order not to die of the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

68. Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

69. Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

70. Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

71. It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

72. There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

73. Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

74. It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

75. 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 

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

77. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. - Aristotle 

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

79. The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. - Aristotle 

80. Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mahatma Gandhi 

81. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. - Mahatma Gandhi 

82. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. - Mahatma Gandhi 

83. God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is selfsustained. - Mahatma Gandhi 

84. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. - Mahatma Gandhi 

85. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. - Mahatma Gandhi 

86. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. - Mahatma Gandhi 

87. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. - Mahatma Gandhi 

88. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. - Mahatma Gandhi 

89. I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. - Mahatma Gandhi 

90. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf 

91. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. - Virginia Woolf 

92. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. - Virginia Woolf 

93. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf 

94. Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. - Virginia Woolf

95. I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. - Ronald Reagan 

96. Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. - Ronald Reagan 

97. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato

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

99. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - Buddha 

100. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. - Buddha