If you want a faithful servant, and one that you like-server yourself.---Benjamin Franklin
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.-----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.---Oliver Wendell Holmes
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth--and truth rewarded me.----Simone de Beauvoir
The trouble about man is two fold. He cannot learn truths, which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.-----Rebecca West
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.-----Stopford Brooke
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.----Denis Diderot
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.---Antonio Porchia
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.---Alphonse de Lamartine
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.---W. Somerset Maugham
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.---W. MacNeile Dixon
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.----William James
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.----William Blake
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.----Werner Heisenberg
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.---Thomas Jefferson
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.-----Max Ehrman