Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

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

Live truth instead of professing it.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Knowledge is true opinion.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.