There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.