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

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.

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

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

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Truth is a demure lady much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there but people must want her and seek her out.

Who never doubted never half believed. Where doubt is there truth is - it is her shadow.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If there were only one truth you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying or by being lied to.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

There's no truth anymore.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths and as a result there is no truth.

Nothing is beautiful only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this except that it ain't so.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

I preach there are all kinds of truth your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.