Truth Quotes
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor” is credited to Einstein and flagged as misattributed. The earliest attribution found is in Arthur Koestler’s The Yogi and the Commissar (1945). It appears to be a rewording of something Einstein did write: in the preface to Relativity (1916) he says he followed the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann’s rule that matters of elegance should be left to the tailor and the cobbler. So the idea is Boltzmann’s, and Einstein credited it to him. The version people repeat came later.
Elsewhere on the page, Ulysses S. Grant, in his Personal Memoirs (1885), notes that wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. Pope John Paul II, in Fides et Ratio (1998), writes that every truth presents itself as universal, even when it is not the whole truth.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
A fundamental value in the scientific outlook is concern with the best available map of reality.
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
All religions are incorporated in the principle of Truth, Simplicity and Love.
One may say "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants.