Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. Jeanette Winterson confidencefundamentalisthave Change image and share on social
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Frank Herbert basisclosemorality Change image and share on social
It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case. David Boies accuratecasecomplicate share on social
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth. Saint Bernard deceiveknowledgeopinion share on social
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. James Madison abroadchargedanger Change image and share on social
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. Henry David Thoreau epitaphqualityrare Change image and share on social
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. Dorothy Allison fictionliemean Change image and share on social
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card holdmetaphorspace Change image and share on social
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux exercisefreelyimagination Change image and share on social