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

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

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

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’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

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.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the 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.

Truth is a pathless land.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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.

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

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

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

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.