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

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I call architecture frozen music.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

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.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

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.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Time discovers truth.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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

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

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.