In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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 happiness of society is the end of government.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Love truth, but pardon error.
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.