Quotes About Truth

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts.

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.

He that believeth not shall be damned.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Biography is the only true history.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Every burned book enlightens the world.