If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not read more

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on read more

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.

To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.

But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.

But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
[Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
[Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]