The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.

So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. Letter to Robert A. Thorton, Physics Professor at University of Puerto Rico (7 December 1944).

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.

Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. Speech in the House of Commons

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Art is a lie that leads us to the truth.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth.