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.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Truth is what works.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

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

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.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

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

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.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

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.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

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

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

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

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

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

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

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.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.