Wahrheit
“Die Sprache der Wahrheit ist einfach.”
“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to ignore their talk and judge only their actions.”
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, the Devil always builds a chapel there.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
“Skepticism is the first step toward truth.”
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant—”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
“All that glitters is not gold.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
“Truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks.”
“The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.”
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”