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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.