There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Truth is what works.

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.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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

True friends stab you in the front.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

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.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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

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

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

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.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

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

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

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.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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

Seeing is not always believing.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

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.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

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

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.