Too much truth is uncouth.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.
Truth is always a delusion.
I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
