One is a child when one has a child. No one says 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but if ever I should it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

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.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

People say they love truth but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

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.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth which is unbalance may not be a lie.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is we think of them as we please that is as they please or displease us.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies which in truth they are.

Representation of the world like the world itself is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view which they confuse with the absolute truth.

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.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

Love is not a mere impulse it must contain truth which is law.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur whether they copy these in advance or not.