The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

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

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

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.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

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

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

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

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.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

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.

Truth is a tendency.

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