The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable.

—Tom DeMarco

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.

 —Albert Einstein

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

—Boris Pasternak

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is.

 —Winston Churchill

Truth exists. Only falsehood has to be invented.

—Georges Braque

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.

—G.K. Chesterton

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

 —André Gide

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

 —Lillian Hellman

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

 —Alexander Jablokov

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

 —John Lilly

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.

 —H. L. Mencken

Repetition does not transform a lie into truth.

 —Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don’t want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

 —Samuel Goldwyn

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

—Merry Browne

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

—Adrienne Rich

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

 —John F. Kennedy

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way and not starting.

—Buddha