Famous Quotes About truth

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.