Truth

Quotes

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
Aldous Huxley

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
William Shakespeare

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
Robert M. Pirsig

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth."
Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'
-- that is all Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."

John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide

 
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