Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is? - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy
The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth is the most cruel thing man can say to another. - Leo Tolstoy
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. - Leo Tolstoy
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. - Abraham Lincoln
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. - Albert Schweitzer
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. - Martin Luther King Jr
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