Adversity is the first path to truth.

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

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

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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

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

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.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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.