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

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

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

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

It is not truth that matters, but victory

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

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

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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

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.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

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