Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
The truth is when those Butler Brothers folks turned down my discounting idea, I got a little angry, and maybe that helped me decide to swim upstream on my own.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance
Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
Truth, to be convincing, should be specific.
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen.
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.