“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.”
“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”
“The color of truth is gray.”
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.”
“In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”
“Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”
“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”
“The words of truth are simple.”
“Too much truth is uncouth.”
“Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.”
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.”
“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”