Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
There is no original truth, only original error.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
