“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”— Guy de Maupassant, goodreads.com
“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, en.wikiquote.org
“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”— Joanna Hoffman, goodreads.com
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly an…”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms—all of them—may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.”— Rod Serling, books.google.com
“This is not a new world—it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated…”— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org
“Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”— Robert Frost, en.wikisource.org
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“It is not the truth that needs people, but people who need the truth.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.”— George Saunders, amazon.com
“Sometimes when you finally find out, you realise that you were much better off not knowing.”— Audrey Niffenegger, amazon.com