Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.