The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

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.

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

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

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