You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

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.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

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

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

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it.

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

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

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