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.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

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

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

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

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

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

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

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.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Error is always more busy than truth.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

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.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

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