Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

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.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

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

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

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.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

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

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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

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.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Truth is what works.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

The lie is a condition of life.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I am a just man.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Live truth instead of professing it.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

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.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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