✦⋆· said, "Fear of people must never prevent any man from telling the truth when he knows it; truly the best jihad is a true word spoken before an unjust ruler."

● "Accept the truth from anyone who comes to you with it - be he lowly or noble, even if he himself is detestable to you. And reject falsehood from anyone who comes to you with it - be he lowly or noble, even if he is beloved to you."

✦⋆· "When truth was revealed to me, I never doubted it."

● "I never lied and the things revealed to me were not false, I never misled anybody nor was I misled."

● "One, who forsakes truth earns eternal damnation."

● "The truth is the strongest support."

● "Verily the truth is not known through men; know the truth [first] and you will know its people."

● "Know that the truth is [like] tame mounts, whose owners have mounted them and have been handed their reins. They take them gently until they came to ample shade."

● "Truly the truth is heavy but wholesome, whereas falsehood is light but plagued."

● "It is written on the hilt of one of the Prophet (saw)'s swords: 'Speak the truth even if it be against yourself."

● "Do not let consideration for a person's right hinder you from upholding the truth when it is against him."

● "The best of people in the sight of Allah is he who likes to act according to what is right - even if it brings him loss and misery - more than what is wrong, even if it brings him profit and increase of wealth."

● Imam Ali (as) said in one of his wills to his son, Imam Hussain (as), "O my son! I advise you to fear Allah in both affluence and poverty, and to tell the truth both when pleased as well as when angered."

● "The truth is the widest thing in description, but the narrowest in practicing justice. No sooner does it side with someone than it will side against him [at another time], and no sooner does it side against someone than it will side for him later. And if anyone is to side with it, never going against it, then that would be purely for Allah, glory be to Him."

✦⋆· "At the time of his death, my father, Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as) hugged me close to his chest and said, 'O my son! I advise you as my father advised me at the time of his death, and he proceeded to mention that his father had advised him, saying: 'O my son! Endure the truth even if it be bitter."

✦⋆· "No sooner does falsehood stand against the truth than the truth defeats the falsehood, for that is the purport of His verse: "Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it crushes its head..."

● "Honour is that you humble yourself to the truth when you face it."

✦⋆· said, "Speak the truth even if it entails your own ruin, for verily your deliverance is therein... and abandon falsehood even if it entails your deliverance, for truly therein is your ruin."