If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

I quote others only to better express myself.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Truth is a tendency.

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.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.