Here are few quotes regarding truth: (I have collected words for many years!)

"Truth is our element"---Emerson

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them"
--Galileo

"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because
a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books, Believe
nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone
else believes it. Believe ONLY what you yourself test and judge to be true" ---Buddha
(Paraphrased)

"Whosoever wished to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth, be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it, all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."---Heraklietos of Ephesos

Best for last:

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."--George Orwell

Kate

"Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth." -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In a world that has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
Guy Debourd
The Society of the Spectacle



2 Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary



3 But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum



4 Put a bullet through my head, and end my miseries.
We live only to die one day, fools dream of eternity.
I thirst for reality in this oasis of truths.


5 Truth? We search and search. Many have opinions that are laws unto themselves but in trying to impose those laws on others truth probably walked right by laughing or crying, unnoticed.
Roger Pielechaty



6 Boys are made to squirt and girls are made to lay eggs. And if the truth be known, boys don't very much care what they squirt into.
Gore Vidal



7 There are always three sides to every story; Your side, the other side and the truth.


8 The true trial of a dream is its translation into truth. Passions can fade, dreams can become hazed. Attention must be paid.
Richard Smith



9 There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself: an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes



10 Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire



11 'Do you love me?' I asked him, seemingly out of the blue but in my own mind the question had been rolling off my lips for some time. He just looked at me with his head cocked to one side as if to say 'what on earth do you mean?'. I persisted 'Do you love me? It's a simple question Michael.' He paused, took a deep breath drawing words into his mouth. 'I do, yes. I love you Nathalie.' I think in any other mindset I would have ran into his arms and told him that he'd made me the happiest woman in the world, but it's a funny thing when the delusion wears off and you see someone in their truth for the first time... I was hardened, he was lying, nobody was wrong or right at this point and no matter how many 'I love you's would leave our lips, we had reached our end.
Elizabeth Barrett
The Center of my Universe



12 We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy



13 Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.

Frank Zappa



14 We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from the equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson



15 Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth.
Pablo Picasso



16 Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton



17 There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.
Terry Brooks
First King of Shannara



18 Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
W. Somerset Maugham
The Summing Up



19 The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler



20 Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley



21 You judge me but you don't know me. You will drown in your own hypocrisy before you realize I speak the truth.
Ben Ewing



22 Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.


23 The truth shall make you free, but first it shall piss you off.


24 As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings



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



26 One final snag in the "Bible only" view is this: the Bible itself teaches that moral truths are revealed outside the Scriptures.
C. Stephen Layman
The Shape of the Good: Christian Reflections on the Fondation of Ethics



27 You know how they say "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger?" Well that's a crock... the truth is whatever doesn't kill you is your Life.
Bobbie Spencer



28 If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
Marcus Aurelius



29 When the truth walks away, everybody stays
Cause the truth about the world is that crime does pay
So if you walk away, who is gonna stay
Cause I'd like to think the world is a better place
The Offspring
Have You Ever
Americana



30 The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
G. C. Lichtenberg



31 It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
Henry Miller



32 It is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions - each of them claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others - how can someone possibly take any of them seriously? I mean, that's insane. And such insanity concerns me, especially now that waves of lunacy are washing over the United States and the world in the form of millennial cults... The crazy thing is, according to traditional Christian dogma, the real millennium was four years ago, for Jesus was supposedly born circa 5 B.C.E. - so it's already 2004! Apparently some millennial nuts are blithely ignoring their own dogma.
Arthur C. Clarke



33 Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it.
Vaclav Havel



34 Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
Isaac Asimov



35 Make it as close to the truth as you can, the better to make it a lie.
Marius De Romanus
The Vampire Armand



36 The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy



37 Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne



38 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche



39 For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
1984, Macintosh Commercial



40 The truth is so important in war, that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill



41 Don't ask me any questions, because I just might tell you the truth.


42 What I said was scathing, unneccesarily blunt and contained wild tangents of untruth.


43 On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark



44 ... there is such a thing as perfection... and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull



45 I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.
Anais Nin
House of Incest



46 Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life.
Schiller



47 We cling to those truths that keep us sane.
The X-Files



48 Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.


49 I have one request: may I never use my reason against the truth.
Elie Wiesel, quoting from a Hasidic rabbi's prayer



50 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr



51 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
Clarence Darrow



52 When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
A. Conan Doyle



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



54 The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
A. Whitney Brown
The Big Picture



55 Man is least himself when he is in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Penguin Plays



56 Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
Loreena McKennitt



57 All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw



58 Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler



59 Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman



60 In a minority of one the truth is still the truth.
Mahatma Ghandi



61 Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide



62 Swallowing truth without chewing will probably choke you.
H. Kerkhoff



63 There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
Leo Tolstoy



64 Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend.
I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope's lens.

Jason Q.



65 The spacious firmament on bigh
With all the blue etherial sky
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great original proclaim.
The unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And published to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth;
Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets, in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
What though in solemn silence all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball
What though no real voice, nor sound,
Amidst their radiant orbs be found,
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine
Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason, Part 1



66 I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton



67 My young brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth - that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally - but I didn't want to upset him.
from an actual newspaper contest where entrants age 4 to 15 were asked to imitate "Deep Thoughts by



68 Scientific theories are judged by the coherence they lend to our natural experience and the simplicity with which they do so. The grand principle of the heavens balances on the razor's edge of truth.
Commissioner Pravin Lal
"A History of Science"



69 If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
"Looking God in the Eye"



70 The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done."
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
University Commencement



71 The truth is the quickest and easiest way out of trouble.
Sarah, age 12



72 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice



73 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye



74 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice



75 Too late my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine body's aching all the time
Goodbye ev'rybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama ooh I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
. . .
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody



76 Don't be alarmed, no don't be concerned
I don't want to change things
Leave them just as they were
I mean, nothing's really different
It's me who feels strange
I'm always lost for words
When someone mentions your name
I know that I'll get over this for sure
I'm not the type who dreams there could be more
Southern Sons
You Were There
Nothing But The Truth



77 ...and like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough

Patty Smyth and Don Henley
Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough



78 The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lof if you approach it from only one angle.
Randal Duffy



79 Memory is often less about truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam



80 A truths that told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake

(contributed by Andrew)


81 There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.
Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time

(contributed by Rob Heeley)


82 In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
Theodore Forstmann



83 There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves.
Peter Hoeg
Smilla's Sense of Snow



84 As thin as the line between love and hate is, you must take every precaution possible in order to prevent their mixing, for whenever one is felt for the other it is a bad thing.
Trent Dackmin
Story Truth

(contributed by Ben)


85 Using Lynx to access www.playboy.com/ finally gives some truth to the saying, I only read playboy for the articles.


86 Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses
Even as her words cut deep, I can¡¦t deny the truth in them
On the phone, she talks a lot, and me, I listen hopelessly
So directionless, I head into oblivion


And then I decide to give another random memory
To remind her of the first time we sang out to the sea
Oh Isabell, you always understood me
Please Isabell, forgive me now
Ben Jelen
Falling Down



Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.
Frances (Diane Lane)
Under the Tuscan Sun

"Your Task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false."-A course in Miracles