There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Lost time is never found again.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

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

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

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.

We are so very ‚umble.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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

Seeing is not always believing.

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

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

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

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.