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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

All money is a matter of belief.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.