A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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

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.

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

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

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

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

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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.

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

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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