Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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

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

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

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

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

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

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

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

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

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.