- Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Truth
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Truth
- Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- George Eliot on Truth
- Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- Christian Nestell Bovee on Truth
- Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
- Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
- Umberto Eco on Truth
- Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
- George Saunders on Truth
- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain on Truth
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Stephen King on Truth
- Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Truth
- Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Truth
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Truth
- For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- George Orwell on Truth
- For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
- Marie De France on Truth
- For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
- Maya Angelou on Truth
- For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
- Bo Bennett on Truth
- For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
- Patrick Henry on Truth
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
- John Dryden on Truth
- For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron on Truth
- For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
- Samuel Butler on Truth
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Thomas Carlyle on Truth
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- Simone Weil on Truth
- Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
- Thomas Huxley on Truth
- Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
- Ambrose Bierce on Truth
- Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
- Herman Melville on Truth
- From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- Tom Stoppard on Truth
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