We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The harmony that holds between truths is like the harmony in a painting.
In jest - it is well known - one may even tell the truth.
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Nature is truth. Art is the highest truth.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
What forbids me from telling the truth with a laugh?
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
The object of the superior man is truth.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
