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Truth Quotes
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."
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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"
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"...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime."
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"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people."
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"Naked truths aren't always pretty."
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"There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been."
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"There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heated argument with one of his colleagues over an issue, and the other senator, sensing he was on the losing side of the argument, blurted out: 'Well, you may disagree with me, Pat, I'm entitled to my own opinion." To which Moynihan frostily replied, "You are entitled to you own opinion, but you are not entitled to you own facts."
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
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"Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So."
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"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."
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"Think twice before you try to convince someone by killing the truth."
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"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
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"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
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"We don't know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?"
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
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"When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth."
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"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."
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"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
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"The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it."
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
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"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
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"The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results."
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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
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"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within."
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"You must forgive my Hunters if they do not welcome you," Artemis said. "It is very rare that we would have boys in this camp. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp" She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?"That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope."Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes."
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"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth."
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"No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else."
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