Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

No, I don’t understand my husbands theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.