Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

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

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

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

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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

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

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

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.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

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

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.