There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet bitter and that is everything.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth or in affectation.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Tell the truth but tell it slant.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Seldom very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

I left in love in laughter and in truth and wherever truth love and laughter abide I am there in spirit.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats we will stop telling the truth about them.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Always speak the truth think before you speak and write it down afterwards.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Truth is so hard to tell it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error lest you get your brains kicked out.

But whether it be dream or truth to do well is what matters. If it be truth for truth's sake. If not then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For truth is precious and divine too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations but truth has only one mode of being.