Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

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

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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

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

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

We have art in order not to die of the 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.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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.