A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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

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

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent persuasive and unrealistic.

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.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it it's the truth. It is the truth.

People should be free people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.