Live truth instead of professing it.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

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

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Integrity has no need of rules.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

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.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

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

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?