Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.