Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

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

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

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

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.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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

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

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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.

History should be written as philosophy.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

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

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.