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.

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

Truth is a tendency.

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

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.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

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

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

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

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

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

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

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