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

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

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.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The object of the superior man is truth.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

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.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

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.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

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

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

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

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.