A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Truth implies meaning.
Truth is a pathless land.