lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

A worldview tested by truth will inform imagination and meditation, not the other way around. That is why the rigorous way of testing truth has always been through logical consistency, empirical adequacy, and experiential relevance.

Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

Together with this outrage we may take the mutilation of the novel called The Search at the exact point where the author upholds, or appears for the moment to uphold, the doctrine that loyalty to the abstract truth must override all personal considerations;

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Common sense ain't common.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?