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

The lie is a condition of life.

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

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.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

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

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

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.

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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

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

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

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

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

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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.

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

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

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

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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.

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.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

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

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

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

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

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.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

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

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.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.