If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
—Immanuel Kant
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
—Immanuel Kant
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
—René Descartes
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
—René Descartes
There is nothing more ancient than the truth
—René Descartes
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
—Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
—Mark Twain
He who has been smitten with the love of God & the wonder of the cross can never again be tolerant in things that touch his soul & the souls of his fellow men. He will live beside, be patient with, minister to, pray for & love anyone, but never will he compromise the truth
—Tozer
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
—Thomas Aquinas
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
—Marcus Aurelius
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
—Albert Einstein
God has made me willing to do any thing that I can do, consistent with truth, for the sake of peace, and that I might not be a stumbling-block to others.
—David Brainerd
Through the infinite goodness of God, I felt what I spoke; he enabled me to treat on divine truth with uncommon clearness: and yet I was so sensible of my defects in preaching, that I could not be proud of my performance, as at some times; and blessed be the Lord for this mercy.
—David Brainerd
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
—Isaac Newton
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
—Isaac Newton
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
—Isaac Newton
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
—Georg Hegel
I would rather believe and preach unpleasant truth than to believe and preach pleasant error.
—R. A. Torrey
The world itself is proving the Bible’s fundamental postulate that men and women, in and of themselves, cannot arrive at the truth concerning their greatest needs.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Prophecy is not private interpretations of events but God revealing truth to man.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
My friends, I tell you it makes all the difference in the world whether a man believes a truth or a lie.
—D. L. Moody
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Augustine
God never led anyone astray yet, or into error yet; He leads out of darkness into light; He leads from bondage into liberty; He leads from error into truth.
—D. L. Moody
The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.
—Thomas Aquinas
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
—Blaise Pascal
Truth is the most sovereign ingredient for curing the nation and church.
Christopher Love
“The best church that ever Christ had on earth would within a few years apostatise from the truth if deserted by the Spirit of God.”