It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James MadisonThis suggestion that we're some kind of megalomaniacs is so far from the truth that it does annoy me.
Judy FinniganA lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert KiyosakiBigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it (Fireflies, 1928)
Rabindranath TagoreEvery communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'.
Mao Tse-TungWe are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life.
Ethel RosenbergTruth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne
James Russell LowellThe aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Dame Edith SitwellA lie gets round the world before truth has got its boots on.
Alex BirtwistleI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone De BeauvoirThe road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander JablokovMen lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards!
Joaquin MillerA new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
Max PlanckWhere all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John LockeTo be persuasive we must be belivable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Ed MurrowRebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran'Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.'
Michael JacksonAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W Somerset MaughamI told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
Paula JonesBeauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George BancroftMost of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth GoudgeBut now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto EcoA subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac AsimovOne truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald FordThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph JoubertDon't let anybody fool you or tell you anything else, the truth is that composing is hard work!
Lou HarrisonEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace MannThe truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Oscar WildeWhen they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
Daniel BoorstinParliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman TebbitOne of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm MuggeridgeTruth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one
Konrad LorenzIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Lily TomlinWhen you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von BismarckPure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri-Frederic AmielBeauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Gustave CourbetCinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Jean-Luc GodardComedy has to be based on truth.
Sid CaesarLife may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyBut such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineAnother possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave BarryEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin CrispA few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis CarrelAccuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell JamesonThere is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. - The Prince
Niccolo MachiavelliAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri-Frederic AmielSince obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
D H LawrenceMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
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