Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Truth is a tendency.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.