I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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

Facts are stubborn things.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

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

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

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 lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.