A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.