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.
People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.
Live according to the one and only truth and surrender to the trend of truth.
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
It is not truth that is validated by a proof, but one’s understanding of it.