It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth.
One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.
Money, is just paper that will burn with the judgement, but a mindset for the truth, is like a fountain of waters that will carry them through.
The best thing about being neutral and not believing or disbelieving in anything is that the nature reveals the truth in front of you automatically.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
