Unembellished Truth Quotes

Truth is too naked. She does not inflame men.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

... the unarmed power of naked truth.

Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something... it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.