Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
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 quote others only to better express myself.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.
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.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Peace is always beautiful.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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.
It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.