Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
~ Horace Mann
Truth is a tendency.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
~ Uma Thurman
The truth is lived, not taught.
~ Hermann Hesse
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
~ Paul Cézanne
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.
~ Antonin Scalia
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
~ George Orwell
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~ Aristotle
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
~ Anatole France
Expressing truth is hard work.
~ Timothy Noah
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
~ Susan Sontag
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
~ Mary Astell
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
~ Jock Sturges
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
~ Carrie Fisher
A gift of truth is the gift of love.
~ David Icke
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
~ George Bancroft
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
~ Ernest Renan
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
~ Herman Melville
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half a truth is better than no politics.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth is what works.
~ William James
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
~ Bryant H. Mcgill
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
~ Vernon Howard
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
~ André Maurois
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
~ Tertullian
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
~ Diane Abbott
The truth is overrated.
~ Paul Westerberg
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
~ Michael Musto
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
~ Carl Reiner
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
~ Noam Chomsky
