The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it.
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.
The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.
She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant.
The simple truth emerges like a bubble of swamp gas and just as foul.
Submit to the Truth; obey it and accept it from whoever says it, this is submissiveness.
As is often the case in politics, the truth was less important than public perception.
What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.