Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. Anne Lamott
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. Robert Brault
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. Henry Rollins
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. Giacomo Casanova
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. Michel de Montaigne
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Benjamin Disraeli
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. Horace
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. George Eliot
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. George Eliot
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. Ellen DeGeneres