Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas and like those holidays beyond their meaning a factor in our economy.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful to begin to love yourself value yourself. And that's political in its most profound way.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

We live in a world of denial and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion is Humility.

Let a man get up and say Behold this is the truth and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look you have forgotten the cat I say.

When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.

As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Anyone can tell the truth but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Too much truth is uncouth.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.