Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.