Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

Sincerity is moral truth.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.