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

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

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.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

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

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

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

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

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

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

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

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Exactitude is not truth.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Humility is truth.

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

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.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

I always come from truth.

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.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

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

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

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.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

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.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

I can take any truth just don't lie to me.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

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

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

I say that justice is truth in action.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

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.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

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.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

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

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

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

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

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

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

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

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.