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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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

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

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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

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.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.