Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

The lie is a condition of life.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

This way of life is worth defending.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Time discovers truth.