Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

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‘.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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

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

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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.

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

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

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

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Facts are stubborn things.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

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.

Time discovers truth.

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.

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.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

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

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.