Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

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.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.