The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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

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

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

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

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

Truth is more often stranger than fiction.

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

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.

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.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

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.

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).

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