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- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. — Albert Einstein
- Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. — June Jordan
- To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan
- The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. — June Jordan