"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth." - Alfred Adler, Problems of Neurosis

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal intime

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." - Aristotle, On the Heavens, book I, ch. 5

"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth." - Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion." - Francis Bacon

"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Time

"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." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil." - Clarence S. Darrow

"Now, what I want is, Facts . . . Facts alone are wanted in life." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times

"I say that justice is truth in action." - Benjamin Disraeli, speech (1851)

"Facts are stubborn things." - Ebenezer Elliott, Field Husbandry

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'" - Aulus Gellius

"The truth will ouch." - Arnold H. Glasow

"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment." - Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense." - Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop

"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise." - Samuel Johnson

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All-too-Human

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible." - Dagobert D. Runes

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes." - Mark Twain

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economise it." - Mark Twain

"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true." - Gore Vidal, in Encounter

"The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent." - Blake, William (1757-1827)

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Einstein, Albert

"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) 16 Feb 1934

"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." - Gould, Stephen Jay

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity--love. And the story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." - Hayes, Helen

"Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth." - Kekule, Friedrich

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." - Lilly, John

"Hell is truth seen too late." - Locke, John (1632-1704)

"Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is. T: also seen as 'Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.'^ History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion--i.e. none to speak of." - Long, Lazarus

"The Man of Truth is beyond good and evil .... The Man of Truth has ridden to All-Is-One. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter." - Lovecraft, H. P. spoken by 'a voice that was not a voice' in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key',

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Nesen, Ron

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly." - Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936) [Russian physiologist]

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth." - Young, Edward (1684-1765)