Quotes About Truth

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; Some thought, much whim, and all contradiction.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

How forcible are right words!

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

But it does move.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

The truth is, we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Get black on white.