truth Quotes

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Everything popular is wrong.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.