No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Accuracy builds credibility.
Tell the truth and make it rhyme.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
The worst crime is faking it.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
There’s no God higher than truth.
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.