Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Where was truth, where did a man's true nature lie? There was, as it were, an essence and there was also an existence
The truth is always painful. Until we grow used to it
He saw the real truth approaching from afar in mockery
It's the wish, the desire, that matters, and the truth means nothing
I publish the truth when I've had time to digest the truth
The soul in hell is ... a soul at last aware that truth and beauty and goodness, as expressed in what we may call the personality of God, go on existing but quite beyond the hope of that soul's being able to get at them. The condemned soul knows what it wants, but it can't have what it wants. That's hell
There is sometimes neither goodness nor beauty in truth
Being uncommitted to veritable fact ... I can indulge in the free fancy that often turns out to be the truth
All memories are disordered. The truth, if not mathematical, is what we think we remember
Those of you who aspire to be novelists, do please remember that the mechanics of the craft are more important than angling for truths or changing the world
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
