Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

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

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I have to be seen to be believed.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.