Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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.

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

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

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

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

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.