The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

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

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

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.