Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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

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

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

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.

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

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

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.

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

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Children make your life important.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

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.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Justice is truth in action.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.