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.

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

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

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Commencement address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (11 June 1962)

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Agricultural Distress, speech in the House of Commons (1851-02-11)

Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.