I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
I’m not okay.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.