Truth

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right”

“A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”

“A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth”

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”

“All art is propaganda”

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

“All warfare is based on deception”

“All wars are planned by older men in council rooms apart”

“An artist's duty is to reflect the times”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand”

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot”

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise”

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth”

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law”

“Conventionality is not morality”

“Crazy-busy is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us”

“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them”

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed”

“Don't think. Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory”

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are”

“Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are”

“Existence precedes essence”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled”

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break”

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you”

“Hell is other people”

“Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”

“Houston, we've had a problem”

“I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others”

“I really didn't say everything I said”

“I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives”

“I think, therefore I am”

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being”

“Ich bin ein Berliner”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”

“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”

“If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”

“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”

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule”

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear”

“It's a big club and you ain't in it”

“Money is gold, and nothing else”

“No matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know”

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature”

“People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as a joke”

“Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum”

“Price is what you pay, value is what you get”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition”

“Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us”

“Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool”

“The first thing is character, before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it. A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money”

“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has”

“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman”

“The most violent element in society is ignorance”

“The pen is mightier than the sword”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast”

“There are four hundred thousand words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television”

“There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”

“They muddy the waters to make them look deep”

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice”

“Trust, but verify”

“Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depths of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another”

“When the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality”

“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it”