Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Henry Mayhew

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
Mercedes McCambridge

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
David Blaine

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
Edward Tufte

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Jewel Kilcher

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
Dean Kamen

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.
Chauncey Wright

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
James Collins

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
Charles Keating

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene