Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. Goethe.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The eternal years of God are hers; / But error, wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies among his worshippers. W. C. Bryant.
Truth does not conform itself to us, but we 30 most conform ourselves to it. M. Claudius.
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. Dean Alford.
Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. La Roche.
Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there / Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. George Herbert.
Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne. Lowell.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / 35 And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. Goldsmith.
Truth has a quiet breast. Rich. II., i. 3.
Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange; but if a proposition be true, there can be none more true. Johnson.