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

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

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

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

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

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

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I quote others only to better express myself.

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.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

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

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

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It is not truth that matters, but victory

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

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

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

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 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.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Love truth, but pardon error.

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

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

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

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.

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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

Peace begins with a smile..

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Peace is always beautiful.

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

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

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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

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

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

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

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

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.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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.

Truth is a tendency.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

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

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.