"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

"Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser."

"Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence."

"This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd"

"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."

"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."

"What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly."

"To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man"

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."

"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."

"… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth."

"The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature."

"She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth."

"That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended."

"All we can do is go around telling the truth."

"And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many."

"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."

"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."

"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."