The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Seeing is not always believing.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

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

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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

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

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

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

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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.