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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.