The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.