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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Peace is always beautiful.

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

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

I quote others only to better express myself.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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

Truth is a tendency.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Adversity is the first path to truth.