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 truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world.
There is no reality but God,
says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.
When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
Another ancient poet, whose name I have forgotten, said that Truth is the daughter of Time.
Truth does not do so much good in the world, as the appearance of it does evil.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
The progress of man consists in this, that he himself arrives at the perception of truth.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.