Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

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

I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

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.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

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

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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.‘

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

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

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I need physics more than friends.

Seeing is not always believing.

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.