The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Truth is a tendency.
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.
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 most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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.
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.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
