Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
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.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
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 practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.