Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

When virtue is lost benevolence appears when benevolence is lost right conduct appears when right conduct is lost expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The object of the superior man is truth.

One may sometimes tell a lie but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.