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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

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.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

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

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Truth is a tendency.

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.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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

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

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

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