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

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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.

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

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

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.

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.

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

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

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

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.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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

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

I call architecture frozen music.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Time discovers truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

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

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

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Error is always more busy than truth.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

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.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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.

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 is the truth inside the lie.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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