Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

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

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

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

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.

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

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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

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.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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.

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

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

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

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

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

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

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