Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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.
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
