- Truth is generally the best vindication
against slander.
- -Abraham Lincoln ( 1809 - 1865 ) , letter
to Secretary of War Edwin
- Stanton, July 18, 1864
-
- There are few nudities so objectionable
as the naked truth.
- -Agnes Repplier ( 1855 - 1950 )
-
- Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- -Andre Gide ( 1869 - 1951 )
-
- All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second,
- it is violently opposed. Third, it is
accepted as being self-evident.
- -Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788 - 1860 )
-
- Ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free.
- -Bible, John 8:32
-
- Chase after truth like hell and you'll
free yourself, even though you
- never touch its coat-tails.
- -Clarence Darrow ( 1857 - 1938 )
-
- The public will believe anything, so
long as it is not founded on truth.
- -Edith Sitwell ( 1887 - 1964 )
-
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand
on.
- -Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( 1815 - 1902
)
-
- The truth is more important than the
facts.
- -Frank Lloyd Wright ( 1869 - 1959 )
-
- All truths are easy to understand once
they are discovered; the point is
- to discover them.
- -Galileo Galilei ( 1564 - 1642 )
-
- The truth that makes men free is for
the most part the truth which men
- prefer not to hear.
- -Herbert Agar
-
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has
always been in excess of the
- demand.
- -Josh Billings ( 1818 - 1885 ) , 'Affurisms
from Josh Billings: His
- Sayings,' 1865
-
- Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but
rather, 'I have found a truth.'
- -Kahlil Gibran ( 1883 - 1931 )
-
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- -Lenin ( 1870 - 1924 )
-
- A lie can travel halfway around the world
while the truth is putting on
- its shoes.
- -Mark Twain ( 1835 - 1910 ) , ( attributed
)
-
- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.
Truth isn't.
- -Mark Twain ( 1835 - 1910 )
-
- The history of our race, and each individual's
experience, are sown
- thick with evidence that a truth is not
hard to kill and that a lie told
- well is immortal.
- -Mark Twain ( 1835 - 1910 ) , Advice
to Youth
-
- Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
- -Mark Twain ( 1835 - 1910 )
-
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- -Matthew Arnold ( 1822 - 1888 ) , 'Sohrab
and Rustum,' 1853
-
- The opposite of a correct statement is
a false statement. But the
- opposite of a profound truth may well
be another profound truth.
- -Niels Bohr ( 1885 - 1962 )
-
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- -Oscar Wilde ( 1854 - 1900 ) , The Importance
of Being Earnest, 1895,
- Act I
-
- Truth persuades by teaching, but does
not teach by persuading.
- -Quintus Septimius Tertullianus ( 160
AD - 230 AD ) , Adversus
- Valentinianos
-
- Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but
so are lies.
- -Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 - 1882 )
-
- I have been truthful all along the way.
The truth is more interesting,
- and if you tell the truth you never have
to cover your tracks.
- -Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com
Weblog, January 04, 2004
-
- How often have I said to you that when
you have eliminated the
- impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth?
- -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 - 1930
) , ( Sherlock Holmes ) The Sign of
- Four, 1890
-
- The truth is always a compound of two
half- truths, and you never reach
- it, because there is always something
more to say.
- -Tom Stoppard ( 1937 - )
-
- Love truth, and pardon error.
- -Voltaire ( 1694 - 1778 )
-
- Truth is truth
- To the end of reckoning.
- -William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616 )
, "Measure for Measure", Act 5
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