All stories should have some honesty and truth in them otherwise you're just playing about.

There are two ways of lying. One not telling the truth and the other making up statistics.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe having surveyed a few boxes full of letters diaries bank statements and photographs that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches but they mean the riches possessed by others.

So far as hypotheses are concerned let no one expect anything certain from astronomy which cannot furnish it lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Violence does in truth recoil upon the violent and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Justice is rather the activity of truth than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another when the truth is we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

We often want one thing and pray for another not telling the truth even to the gods.

Ah well the truth is always one thing but in a way it's the other thing the gossip that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.