The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
And yet it moves.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole.
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.
Nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
Truth is always strange - stranger than fiction.
It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart.
The eyes cannot know the nature of things.
The sole aim of journalism should be service.
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation that those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
Whether there be a God and whatever be His nature, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
The whole is greater than the part.
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
