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Democritus1 quote
In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth. — Democritus · 240Flannery O'Connor1 quote
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 · 1952G.K. Chesterton1 quote
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 · 1905George Costanza1 quote
Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it. — George Costanza · 1995Gerald Brenan1 quote
You can't get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that. — Gerald Brenan · 1986Michel de Montaigne1 quote
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 · 1580Nadine Gordimer1 quote
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer · 1963Oscar Wilde1 quote
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde · 1895Theodore Parker1 quote
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 · 1842Vaclav Havel1 quote
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom, and under what circumstances we say it. — Vaclav Havel · 1985Voltaire1 quote
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. — Voltaire · 1761