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.
To say of what is, that it is, or of what is not, that it is not, is true.
Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light — every eye looking on finds its own.
'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange,
Stranger than fiction.
All profound truths startle you in their first announcement.
How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.
There is nothing more freeing than telling the truth. And it must be done, again and again.
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay: falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
The foolish read to escape reality; the wise surrender to it.