truth on Truth and Fiction

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Of true Christianity is not the truth of God, then the richest vintage that ever the world saw and the noblest wine of which it ever drank did grow up a thorn.

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

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.

Truth enjoys but a short time of triumph between two long eras — in the first of them it is condemned as paradoxical, in the last is despised as trivial..

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Tell the truth and write about freedom and fight for it, however you can, and you will be richly rewarded.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Who will tell you the truth? An enemy who hates you bitterly, and a friend who loves you dearly.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

In the novel The Second Coming one of Walker Percy’s characters says about Christians, “I cannot be sure they don’t have the truth. But if they have the truth, why is it the case that they are rep...

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.