If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

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

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

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

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

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

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

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

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

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.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

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.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

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.

Tell the children the truth.

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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

Truth is a pathless land.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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

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.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

And 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.

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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.

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