Sometimes the truth is stupid.
-- Roger Williams, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect


Truth is strong because it is true...Truth is justice because it is true.
-- Taro, Serial Experiments Lain



To pretend that truth is so deeply hidden from us and that it is hard to
distinguish it from falsehood is quite preposterous: the truth remains hidden
only while we have nothing but false opinions and doubtful speculations; but
hardly has truth made its appearance than its light will dispel dark shadows.
Galileo


The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. 
            -- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)

"It is as morally bad not to care whether a thing is true 
or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to 
care how you got your money as long as you have got it."
-Edmund Way Teale, "Circle of the Seasons", 1950


My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being
the basis for all morality.  "Something cannot emerge from nothing,"
he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the
truth" can be.
from "Conversations with Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan 
Dune 207