Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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

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

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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.

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

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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

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.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The lie is a condition of life.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

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

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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

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

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.