It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

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

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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

A yawn is a silent shout.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

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

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Error is always more busy than truth.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Understanding is a two-way street.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

All men hate the nagging.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

I write all my sermons.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

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.

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.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.