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

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

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

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.