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 certain truths that, in themselves, are as dangerous as any advanced technology.
The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.”
International relations and dialogue cannot be built either on lies or the denial of truth.
My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
Truth is at the door, howling and stamping her foot. Truth is not always decorous.