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

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

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

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

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

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.

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.

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.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

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.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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.