Adversity is the first path to truth.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

It is not truth that matters, but victory

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Peace begins with a smile..