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

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.

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

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

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

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

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

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.

Truth is a tendency.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

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

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

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

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

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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