A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
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.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Peace is always beautiful.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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 believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
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.
Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.