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My name is Truth
and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
-Carl Sandburg

Trying to put the truth into concise terms,
the brush cries for direction,
but the universe keeps its secret.
-Zen Graffiti

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
-Mohandas Gandhi 

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths
may be the rest of our truths.
-William James

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
-Vernon Howard

Is not the truth the truth?
-William Shakespeare

Truth - but who can tell a state
Of being? To no question
Is truth an answer we can formulate.
-Kathleen Raine

That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture.
-Edward Counsel

Truth is silent;
it's views and opinions that make all the noise.
-Zen Graffiti

To crooked eyes,
truth may wear a wry face.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
-Friedrich Schiller

The color of truth is gray.
-Andre Gide

Truth is never ugly
when one can find in it what one needs.
-Edgar Degas

If a truth is not sturdy enough
to endure distortion and rough handling,
it does not belong to a very robust species.
-Samuel Butler

No truth leads to discouragement.
-John Ruskin

It is very true that the truth itself 
is not always applied equally in life.
-Sang H. Kim  

The truth does not change
according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
-Flannery O'Connor

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters 
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-Albert Einstein

Truth is both arms and armor.
-Edward Counsel

Truth shall not fear question
-The Occulatum

Truth is what stands the test of experience.
-Albert Einstein

The best mind altering drug is truth.
-Lily Tomlin

Truth, however bitter,
can be accepted and woven into a design for living.
-Agatha Christie

Truth is tough.
It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch;
nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football,
and it will be round and full at evening.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Truth is incontravertible.
Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end, there it is.
-Winston Churchill

Truth is what makes a people
certain, clear and strong.
-Martin Heidegger

Can anyone but Truth
satisfy a human need?
-Yunus Emre

Everyone believes that the truth he perceives
is the only one.
-Rodney Collin

What probably distorts everything in life
is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth
because one says what one thinks.
-Sacha Guitry

Truth has never been, can never be,
contained in any one creed or system.
-Mary Augusta Ward

You can't be reluctant to give up your life
and still tell the truth.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

The truth can only be spoken by someone
who is already at home in it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

My intent is to tell truth as I know it,
realizing what may be truth to me
may be blasphemy for others.
-Gerry Spence

Truth after all wears a different face to everybody,
and it would be too tedious to wait until all were agreed.
-James Russell Lowell

Stake life on truth.
-Juvenal