Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.