I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option... →
Dick Thornburgh
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people... →
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber