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Topic·Nature of truth✕clear

Play

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People · 1895

★ 1.3

Magazine

You can't get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that.

Gerald Brenan

1986

★ 1.8

Short story

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

1905

★ 1.9

Novel · Southern gothic

I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

1952

★ 1.9

Play

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom, and under what circumstances we say it.

Vaclav Havel

1985

★ 1.9

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Theodore Parker

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion · 1842

★ 2.6

Letter

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

1761

★ 2.9

Short story

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

1963

★ 3.6

Historical literature

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Democritus

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 3.9

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

George Costanza

Seinfeld · 1995

★ 3.9

Essay

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 5.3

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