Truth

Blind faith in your leaders or anything will get you killed.

Trust the art, not the artist.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

What is right in itself needs no command.

I'm not interested in living in a swamps of consensus.

The only things you can write about are life's imperfections.

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write. I work on a much more pedestrian level. I just try to describe people.

Actor creates with his body and soul. He knows nothing of a colorless truth.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is the truth.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.