Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth.
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.
People always think something’s all true.
Our enemies’ opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.[Nos ennemis approchent plus de la vérité dans les jugements qu’ils font de nous que nous n’en approchons nous-mêmes.]
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
One must accept truth. It’s no good basing your life on a lie because it’s what you want to believe.
One handles truths like dynamite.
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.
Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.[Нет ничего в мире труднее прямодушия, и нет ничего легче лести.]
Not when the truth is filthy, but when it is shallow, doth the discerning one go unwillingly into its waters.[Nicht, wenn die Wahrheit schmutzig ist, sondern wenn sie seicht ist, steigt der Erkennende ungern in ihr Wasser.]
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.[Nicht jeder kann die Wahrheit sehn, aber sein.]
