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.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

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.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

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.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

If you judge, investigate.

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

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

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.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Tell the children the truth.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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

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

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

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

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

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

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

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

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

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.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Silence is the mother of truth.

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

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

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.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.