Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Truth
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
