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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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.

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

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

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

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

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

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

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

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

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

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

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

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.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.