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

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.

Tell the children the truth.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

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

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

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

I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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

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

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

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.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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

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.

Justice is truth in action.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

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

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.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Young people can create beautiful things.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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.

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

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Live truth instead of professing it.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

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.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Time discovers truth.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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