Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Themes
Truth
Honesty, illusion, and the cost of saying what is so.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The true, the good and the beautiful form a group of three great figures; evil may raise a storm of dust that conceals them from the majority, but the time passes, the cloud dissipates, and they reappear as venerable as ever.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.