The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Peace begins with a smile..

I quote others only to better express myself.

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.

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

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

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

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

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

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

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

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.

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

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.