Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Half the Truth is often a great Lie.
General and abstract truth is the most precious of oll goods. Without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.[La vérité générale et abstraite est le plus précieux de tous les biens. Sans elle l’homme est aveugle; elle est l’oeil de la raison.]
For what is Truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived.
For there are roads and roads, and of truth there are orders and orders.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.[Il foco distrugie la bugia, cioè il sofistico, e rende la uerità, scacciado le tenebre.]
Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till someone had told a story.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.[G. K. Chesterton]
Experience tells us that the truth tends to be hard to conceal.
Everything is true. Everything anybody has ever thought.
Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.
