Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.
The will to label will always prevail over what’s being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Let me tell you what the truth is… I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That’s a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.
I’m concerned about truth and credibility in government.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Truth is the daughter of time.
You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like ‘Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.’ The truth is, they don’t always figure it out.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own.
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
