“Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then....I contradict myself; I am large....I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Who shall give a lover any law? Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”— Alan Keightley, goodreads.com
“In a world where most of our connections are virtual, anything that smacks of truth and reality is very compelling.”— Laura Silverman, dveightmag.com
“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org