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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
Every man can have his own peculiar truth; and yet it is always the same.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.
KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion
Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes--never!
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, The Master and Margarita
Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.
Let us not expect men to see truth before it is shown them; they do not see it afterwards.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
Our feelings often color the truth.
To a new truth there is nothing more hurtful than an old error.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Truth is artless and innocent--like the eloquence of nature, it is clothed with simplicity and easy persuasion; always open to investigation and analysis, it seeks exposure, because it fears not detection.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
The true is Godlike: we do not see it itself; we must guess at it through its manifestations.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
There is often more truth in the censure of enemies than in the flattery of friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Truth often spoils the dinner.
Error is related to truth as sleep to waking. I have observed that on awakening from error a man turns again to truth as with new vigour.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
In matter of fact, truth leaves a man at liberty to judge for himself, whilst falsehood, dreading the consequences of investigation, chooses to judge for him.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Some truths may be proclaimed upon the housetop; others may be spoken by the fireside; still others must be whispered in the ear of a friend.
ROSSITER JOHNSON, "The Whispering Gallery"
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Truth and virtue are flowers that die not.
One great disadvantage to the cause of truth is, its being so often in the hands of liars.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
The sun of truth strikes each part of the earth at a little different angle.
HAMLIN GARLAND, Crumbling Idols
Truth is the substance of the soul.
The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it.
DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder
No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards.
"Truth will prevail." It may be true; but some people, I believe, think her a very slow worker; and little will the satisfaction of her prevailing be to you, if you happen to be ruined in your reputation or fortune while she is at work.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
Truth is the right hand of God.
We can, in general, be much less sure of the truth of a thing, than of the falsehood; because though every part we have seen may agree, yet we cannot tell how many may be behind, and one failure of connection will be sufficient to falsify the whole.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.
SUSANNE ALLEYN, Game of Patience
Truth wears an unchanging countenance.
Truth upholds the earth; by truth the Sun shines; the winds blow by truth; and everything else subsists by truth.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture.
Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, "Here Be Dragons"
To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, The Master and Margarita
There are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.
KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket), The Hostile Hospital
Truth rides a long road.
A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
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