Truth Quotes
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.
Tony Kushner
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Above all, words must be recognized as symbolic pointers to truth, not objective containers of truth.
John Shelby Spong
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I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane
Ian Cameron Esslemont
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For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.
H. L. Mencken
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, - either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
John Ruskin
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Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.
Benjamin Wittes
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
Adrian Rogers
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If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.
Arthur Eddington
