Quotes about truth

Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

The servility with which the greater part of the English intelligentsia have swallowed and repeated Russian propaganda from 1941 onwards would be quite astounding if it were not that they have behaved similarly on several earlier occasions. On one controversial issue after another the Russian viewpoint has been accepted without examination and then publicised with complete disregard to historical truth or intellectual decency.