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

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

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.

I need physics more than friends.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Ability without honor is useless.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Silence is the mother of truth.

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

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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

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

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

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.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

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.

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

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

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.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.