The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

A lie cannot live.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

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.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

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.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon 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.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

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

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

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

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

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

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

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

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.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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.

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

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

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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.

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.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.