I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

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

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

A lie cannot live.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

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

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

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

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

The lie is a condition of life.

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

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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

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

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Justice is truth in action.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

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.

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

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Live truth instead of professing it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

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

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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.

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.