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

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

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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

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

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

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.