My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.