Truth is the best defense.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.