For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.