Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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

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.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Silence is the mother of truth.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Time discovers truth.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Justice is truth in action.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.