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

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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

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

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

Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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

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

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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 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.