Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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