truth Quotes

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.