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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Plato

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.” Aesop

“That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.” Sherwood Anderson

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” Barbara Kingsolver

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.” Albert Einstein

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” Samuel Johnson

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain