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

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

A lie cannot live.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

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

Vanity is but the surface.

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

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

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.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

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.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

The little man is still a man.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

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

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.