The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

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

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

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

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

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

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

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

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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

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.