Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.