I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

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

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

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.

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

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

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

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts are stubborn things.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

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

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

A lie cannot live.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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.

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

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

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.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.