A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

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

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.

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

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.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

It is not truth that matters, but victory

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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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

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

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

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

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.

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

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.