All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

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.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

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

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

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.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

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

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

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 difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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.

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

Truth is what works.

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

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Justice is truth in action.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

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

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.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.