—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker

—  Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker

—  Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist

—  Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher

—  G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic

—  George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925

—  Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence

—  Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

—  Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer

—  Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis

—  Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher

—  Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher

—  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher

—  Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims

—  Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher

—  Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

—  Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  Will Rogers, 1879-1935, American actor

—  Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher

—  John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963]

—  Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957

—  André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947

—  André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947

—  Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer

—  John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet

—  René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

—  Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher

—  Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet

—  Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author

—  Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929]

—  Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet

—  Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher

—  Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, Italian monk & philosopher

—  Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, Italian monk & philosopher

—  Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, Italian monk & philosopher

—  Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher

—  Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907

—  Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher

—  Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

—  Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist

—  Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer

—  Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician

—  Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist

—  Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer

—  Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

—  Gospel of John ‐ 8:32

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.

—  Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist,

     (or V.V.V.V.V.; mentioned also in the graphic novel “V for Vendetta”)

Vitam impendere vero.

—  Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet

Nihil veritas erubescit.

—  Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author

—  Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet

—  Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet

—  Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

Ετεή δε ουδέν ίδμεν. Εν βυθώ γαρ η αλήθεια.

—  Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Φίλος μεν Πλάτων, φιλτάτη δε αλήθεια.

—  Antiphanes, 405-335 BC, Ancient comic poet

Απλά γαρ εστι της αληθείας έπη.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Award of the Arms

Ζητώ γαρ την αλήθειαν υφ’ ής ουδείς πώποτε εβλάβη.

—  Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VI, 21

—  from the film A Few Good Men (1992)