Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”
“fiction is the great lie that tells the truth”
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
“money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.”
The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
“Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: That she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.