Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
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.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
In seeking there are several things involved: there is the seeker and the thing that he seeks after.
It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.