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.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Justice is truth in action.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

When in doubt tell the truth.

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.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

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

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.