Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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

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

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Christians are not limited to any church.

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

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

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

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

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.