There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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 believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

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.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

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

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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

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.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Truth is what works.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

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

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say 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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

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.

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.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.