The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth is not.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
James Burgh
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
Anthony Burgess
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
George Walker Bush
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?
Thomas Carlyle
Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
Orson Scott Card
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Marcus Porcius Cato