The truth is more important than the facts.

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

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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

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

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

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

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

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

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

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

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.