Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Most people think that shadows follow precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words ideas desires deeds impulses and memories.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion for the real and for the truth.

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies which in truth they are.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

Memory is a complicated thing a relative to truth but not its twin.

The color of truth is gray.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Representation of the world like the world itself is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view which they confuse with the absolute truth.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

The Bible may be the truth but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself even though you never touch its coat tails.