You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

  False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news. - Adrienne Rich

  The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin

  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

  Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes

  There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. - Dorothy Thompson

  Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow

  Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. - Elizabeth Kenny

  Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it. - Emily Dickinson

  New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. - George Bernard Shaw

  Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. - George Eliot

  Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. - Henry David Thoreau

  It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher

  Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.  - Heraklietos of Ephesos

  Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy. - John Trapp 

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. - Leonardo Da Vinci

  If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius

  When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

  A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.  - Mark Twain

  All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. - Mark Twain

  It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. - Max Planck

  The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. - Pearl S. Buck

  The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. - Pierre Abelard

I am the way, the truth, and the life.  - Jesus Christ 

John 7:16   Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. 17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.    - Jesus Christ

John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.