One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve and I serve it in all lucidity.
In every truth the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
Truth cannot be defeated.
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken and always gets above falsehood as does oil above water.
So far as hypotheses are concerned let no one expect anything certain from astronomy which cannot furnish it lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known but tries to hide them is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it but truth is a point of view and so is changeable.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth or in affectation.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none he cannot find truth give him too much the same.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it but only in such a way that it catches you.
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun the moon and the truth.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
If religion had a good purpose then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.