“The white man is afraid of truth… I’m the only black man they’ve ever been close to who they know speaks the truth to them. It’s their guilt that upsets them, not me.”

“The holiest and most sacred city on earth. The fountain of truth, love, peace, and brotherhood.”

“Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

“The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

“Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?”

“Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.”

“Follow truth wherever it may lead you.”

“There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer.

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

“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, and beer.” 

“Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad.

“Be conscious of God and speak always the truth,” 

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”