The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Oscar Wilde quotes Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain quotes Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... Mark Twain quotes Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain quotes In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi quotes Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman quotes Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton quotes Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. William Blake quotes In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. Henri Matisse quotes | 
