Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
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.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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.
There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The truth is more important than the facts.