Truth Quotes

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Einstein, stop telling God what to do.”

— Niels Bohr

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.”

— René Descartes

“Poetry is the deification of reality.”

— Edith Sitwell

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

— John Keats

“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.”

— Andy Warhol

“I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

— Aristotle

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”

— Isaac Newton

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”

— Will Durant

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”

— Maya Angelou

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

— John Keats

“I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.”

— John Wycliffe

“I have read descriptions of paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.”

— Montesquieu

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”

— Plato

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.”

— Sophocles

“Anger cannot be dishonest.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

— Blaise Pascal

“All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.”

— Harvey S. Firestone

“Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.”

— Mark Twain

“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me; that's not their job.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right then, have it your way.'”

— C.S. Lewis

“The real war will never get in the books.”

— Walt Whitman

“War is a defeat for humanity.”

— Pope John Paul II

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

— Alan Turing

“Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We all know that art is not truth; art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Men freely believe that which they desire.”

— Julius Caesar

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.”

— George Henry Lewes

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart? What jailer so inexorable as one's self?”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.”

— Aeschylus

“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”

— Publilius Syrus

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

— Albert Einstein

“Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.”

— William Law

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

— Che Guevara

“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always surfaces above falsehood, as oil does above water.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Even paranoids have real enemies.”

— Golda Meir

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”

— Julius Caesar

“To believe in God is impossible; not to believe in Him is absurd.”

— Voltaire

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”

— Bob Dylan

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”

— Stendhal

“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”

— Daniel Webster

“It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.”

— Quintilian

“Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time. I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”

— Curtis LeMay

“There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“War is cruelty; there is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“Once you label me, you negate me.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”

— Horace Mann

“Human beings are interested in two things: they are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them; leave them alone.”

— Ayn Rand

“Seek truth from facts.”

— Deng Xiaoping

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”

— Wole Soyinka

“Trust, but verify.”

— Ronald Reagan

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are; you are what you are.”

— John Lennon

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

— Plato

“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

— Pythagoras

“A dog barks when his master is attacked; I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.”

— John Calvin

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”

— Mark Twain

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

— Voltaire

“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.”

— Sitting Bull

“It is a puzzling thing: the truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

— Hiram Johnson

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

— George Orwell

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

— Buddha

“If I had my choice, I would kill every reporter in the world; but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.”

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need, but not for man's greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

— Douglas Adams

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

— Albert Einstein

“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”

— Edward Gibbon

“To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable; the main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“Remarks are not literature.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

— Ronald Reagan

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I am naturally anti-slavery; if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

— Aristotle

“We know the truth not only by the reason but also by the heart.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”

— Plato

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

— John Locke

“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”

— Charles Darwin

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

— Aristotle

“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”

— Herodotus

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”

— Aeschylus

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”

— Voltaire

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

— Buddha

“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?”

— Martin Heidegger

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

— James A. Baldwin

“If then you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”

— Khalil Gibran

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

— George Washington

“We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders; we had reached the naked soul of man.”

— Ernest Shackleton

“Patriot: The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”

— Mark Twain

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

— William Shakespeare

“An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

— Rumi

“Men create the gods in their own image.”

— Xenophanes

“What is left when honor is lost?”

— Publilius Syrus

“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

— Albert Einstein

“If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”

— Joan Baez

“Evil is whatever distracts.”

— Franz Kafka

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Honesty is the best policy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.”

— Tacitus

“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”

— George Orwell

“A diary means yes indeed.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

— Aristotle

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain

“No man is hurt but by himself.”

— Diogenes

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.”

— Austin O'Malley

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”

— Albert Camus

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”

— Edward de Bono

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

— Martin Luther

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

— Susan B. Anthony

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

— George Orwell

“Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.”

— William Bernbach

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

— George Orwell

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

— Groucho Marx

“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

— Walt Whitman

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

— Edward Gibbon

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

— Homer

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

— Buddha

“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The law is reason, free from passion.”

— Aristotle

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

— Dante Alighieri

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

— Socrates

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

— H.G. Wells

“I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud, I try to be a fraud and a half.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“You blows who you is.”

— Louis Armstrong

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“There is no truth; there is only perception.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”

— Clarence Darrow

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

— Sojourner Truth

“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith; it is also the last article of my creed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth is what works.”

— William James

“What we wish, we readily believe; and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”

— Julius Caesar

“My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.'”

— Phil McGraw

“Their very conservatism is secondhand and they don't know what they are conserving.”

— Robertson Davies

“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.”

— Sitting Bull

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends and do not use them as means to your end.”

— Immanuel Kant

“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”

— Buddha

“A bad peace is even worse than war.”

— Tacitus

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

— Sojourner Truth

“Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.”

— William Godwin

“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“China is a big country inhabited by many Chinese.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”

— Bruce Lee

“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”

— Buddha

“It is better to use fair means and fail than foul and conquer.”

— Sallust

“In films, murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death; he and his are not neglected by the gods.”

— Socrates

“The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”

— Mark Twain

“An honest man is always a child.”

— Socrates

“Hide nothing, for time which sees all and hears all exposes all.”

— Sophocles

“Opportunity makes a thief.”

— Francis Bacon

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

— Voltaire

“What is all our histories but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.”

— Oliver Cromwell

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“God never made his work for man to mend.”

— John Dryden

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”

— Mark Twain

“The end may justify the means, as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

— Leon Trotsky

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“And yet it moves.”

— Galileo Galilei

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

— Ayn Rand

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.”

— Mark Twain

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

— Sophocles

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”

— Albert Camus

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand; I can do no other. So help me God. Amen.”

— Martin Luther

“The first reaction to truth is hatred.”

— Tertullian

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

— Albert Camus

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

— André Gide

“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.”

— John Churton Collins

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

— Richard P. Feynman

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”

— Mark Twain

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”

— Albert Einstein

“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense.”

— Mark Twain

“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”

— Anton Chekhov

“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”

— Winston Churchill

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

— Franz Kafka

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

— Oscar Wilde

“What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.”

— Sitting Bull

“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.”

— Lucretius

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith; for without fear of the devil, there is no need for God.”

— Sean Connery

“Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

“It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.”

— Molière

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Just before she died she asked, 'What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, 'In that case, what is the question?' Then she died.”

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Albert Einstein

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

— Albert Camus

“Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.”

— Vladimir Putin

“Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.”

— Tertullian

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is not here.”

— John Lennon

“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Good can exist without evil; whereas evil cannot exist without good.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”

— Buddha

“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“If one were to take the Bible seriously, one would go mad; but to take the Bible seriously, one must be already mad.”

— Aleister Crowley

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

— John Keats

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

— Voltaire

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”

— Kin Hubbard

“By a lie, a man annihilates his dignity as a man.”

— Immanuel Kant

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

— Democritus

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.”

— Confucius

“All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.”

— Jeremy Bentham

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Religion is all too often a refuge for scoundrels.”

— Neal Boortz

“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”

— George Canning

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Time is the father of truth; its mother is our mind.”

— Giordano Bruno

“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”

— Robert J. Ringer

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.”

— Noam Chomsky

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.”

— Stephen Colbert

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”

— Robert Burns

“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.”

— Empedocles

“My guiding principle is this: guilt is never to be doubted.”

— Franz Kafka

“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”

— Virgil

“Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Me? I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.”

— Johnny Depp

“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God; non-violence is the means of realizing Him.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”

— Bertrand Russell

“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.”

— Winston Churchill

“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

— Lewis Carroll

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I am as bad as the worst, but thank God I am as good as the best.”

— Walt Whitman

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There was never a good war or a bad peace.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of the truth.”

— John Locke

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.”

— George Santayana

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

— Plato

“How many legs does a dog have? If you call his tail a leg, four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners, and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

— Blaise Pascal

“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”

— Noam Chomsky

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“The people I most despise are those who have no values.”

— Diane Abbott

“Man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.”

— Aristotle

“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”

— Aldous Huxley

“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war. I say unto you, it is the good war that hallows any cause.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Always speak the truth; think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Truth like gold is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

— Euripides

“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.”

— Arthur Wellesley

“I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”

— Ayn Rand

“Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Logic is neither an art nor a science, but a dodge.”

— Stendhal

“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell is he who hiding one thing in his heart utters another.”

— Homer

“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”

— Roger Ebert

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

— Arthur Miller

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

— Confucius

“There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Art has a double face of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”

— Publilius Syrus

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.”

— Bob Hawke

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”

— Gertrude Stein

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

— Voltaire

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Everything popular is wrong.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The past actually happened, but history is only what someone wrote down.”

— A. Whitney Brown

“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.”

— Ovid

“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”

— Alfred Jarry

“Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.”

— David Ogilvy

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”

— Andy Warhol

“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“During the cold war we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.”

— John le Carré

“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth, and on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.”

— Bobby Darin

“There are two sides to every issue. One side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

— Ayn Rand

“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”

— Brigham Young

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”

— Josh Billings

“Be a good animal; true to your animal instincts.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”

— E.B. White

“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”

— Morgan Freeman

“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”

— Immanuel Kant

“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”

— David Hume

“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”

— Paul Valéry

“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”

— Yogi Berra

“To be sure, I must, and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.”

— Plato

“Men willingly believe what they wish.”

— Julius Caesar

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?”

— Boethius

“Speech is the mirror of the soul.”

— Publilius Syrus

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”

— Socrates

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

— Robert Frost

“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.”

— Ayn Rand

“We cannot of course disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the flying spaghetti monster.”

— Richard Dawkins

“When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.”

— John Dickerson

“Don't trust anyone over thirty.”

— Jerry Rubin

“Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.”

— William Slim

“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”

— John Ruskin

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”

— William James

“The universe is one of God's thoughts.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Doubt is the incentive to truth, and inquiry leads the way.”

— Hosea Ballou

“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

“Peace if possible, but truth at all costs.”

— Martin Luther

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”

— Michael Faraday

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Time discovers truth.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A man's character is his fate.”

— Heraclitus

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

— William Shakespeare

“Words are the money of fools.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“Violence does in truth recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Anatomy is destiny.”

— Sigmund Freud

“We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

— Winston Churchill

“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”

— Hannah Arendt

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”

— Maimonides

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“All money is a matter of belief.”

— Adam Smith

“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.”

— Dale Carnegie

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.”

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.”

— Plautus

“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”

— Robert Browning

“Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare.”

— René Descartes

“Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.”

— William E. Gladstone

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”

— Euripides

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth, and truth rewarded me.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Truth is powerful, and it prevails.”

— Sojourner Truth

“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

— Plato

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

— Voltaire

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”

— Anaxagoras

“Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.”

— Phaedrus

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

— Thomas Paine

“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”

— Woody Allen

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

— Aristotle

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

— Victor Hugo

“The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.”

— Heraclitus

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

— William Shakespeare

“Appearances are often deceiving.”

— Aesop

“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is well known that in war the first casualty is truth; that during any war, truth is forsaken for propaganda.”

— Harry Browne

“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.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Morality is of the highest importance—but for us, not for God.”

— Albert Einstein

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

— Joseph Conrad

“How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words.”

— Samuel Adams

“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

— Carl Sagan

“It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.”

— Ignatius of Antioch

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”

— Tacitus

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

— Milan Kundera

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”

— Omar N. Bradley

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

— Theodor Adorno

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

— Winston Churchill

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

— Karl Marx

“There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people who go out of their way to hurt others will end up broke and alone.”

— Sylvester Stallone

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.”

— Francis Bacon

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

— George Washington

“A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.”

— Elizabeth I

“I maintain that truth is a pathless land and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.”

— Virgil

“Competition is a sin.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

— Sigmund Freud

“A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Poetry is a mere drug, sir.”

— George Farquhar

“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”

— Voltaire

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Good writing is like a windowpane.”

— George Orwell

“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

— Socrates

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

— Thomas Paine

“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”

— Buddha

“What is art? Prostitution.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

— Aristotle

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”

— André Gide

“There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is seeing something that isn't there.”

— Thomas Hardy

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

— Dante Alighieri

“There is no there there.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

— Aristotle

“That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world, there are only individuals.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”

— Karl Marx

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”

— Galileo Galilei

“Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”

— Plato

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

— J.P. Morgan

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”

— Antonio Gramsci

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

— William Butler Yeats

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”

— Denis Diderot

“The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”

— Salvador Dali

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”

— Julius Caesar

“Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.”

— Johannes Gutenberg

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Nothing good ever comes of violence.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”

— Michael Kinsley

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is convenient that there be gods; and as it is convenient, let us believe there are.”

— Ovid

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad; but the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”

— David Hume

“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Tell the children the truth.”

— Bob Marley

“You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.”

— Charles Dickens

“The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.”

— Voltaire

“I believe in God only I spell it Nature.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.”

— Paul Tillich

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

— Bob Dylan

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

— Galileo Galilei

“Two great European narcotics: alcohol and Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But what is the use of preaching the gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?”

— William Booth

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

— Oliver Cromwell

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

— Winston Churchill

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

— Buddha

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”

— Bo Bennett

“When we talk to God, we're praying; when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.”

— Jane Wagner

“Don't be humble. You're not that great.”

— Golda Meir

“When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words and ask no more than complicitous silence.”

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Right is right, even if no one else does it.”

— Juliette Gordon Low

“Virtue has a veil; vice a mask.”

— Victor Hugo

“No man can lose what he never had.”

— Izaak Walton

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.”

— George Berkeley

“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”

— Mark Twain

“Technology is not neutral.”

— Godfrey Reggio

“What use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

— Diogenes

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Science is but an image of the truth.”

— Francis Bacon

“You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.”

— Robert Graves

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

— Socrates

“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

— Charles Dickens

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”

— Mark Twain

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

— Aristotle

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

— Karl Marx

“Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”

— Emily Brontë

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this except that it ain't so.”

— Mark Twain

“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

— Winston Churchill

“So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.”

— Lucretius

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

— William Shakespeare

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

— J.B. Priestley

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”

— Charles de Montesquieu

“The sword wounds the body, sharp words the mind.”

— Menander

“There is no unique picture of reality.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Tell it like it is.”

— Peter Pace

“Re-examine all that you have been told. Dismiss that which insults your soul.”

— Walt Whitman

“Disease is the retribution of outraged nature.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Man is the measure of all things.”

— Protagoras

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

— Democritus

“The word 'theatre' comes from the Greeks; it means 'the seeing place.' It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.”

— Stella Adler

“Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.”

— John Milton

“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

— Charles Dickens

“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“The consumer isn't a moron, she is your wife.”

— David Ogilvy

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

— Adam Smith

“We do not know what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are; that is the fact.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant.'”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.”

— Mark Twain

“A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

— James Callaghan

“Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

— Homer

“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”

— Samuel Johnson

“God will forgive me; it's His job.”

— Heinrich Heine

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”

— Chief Joseph

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

— Albert Einstein

“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage or of principle.”

— Kong Fu Zi

“All generalizations are false, including this one.”

— Mark Twain

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

— William Blake

“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”

— Karl Marx

“Be that self which one truly is.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

— Jane Austen

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong; they are conflicts between two rights.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

“They that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“That which is cannot be true.”

— Herbert Marcuse

“Men are the dreams of a shadow.”

— Pindar

“If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.”

— Dean Kamen

“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”

— Ayn Rand

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“I may be as bad as the worst, but thank God I am as good as the best.”

— Walt Whitman

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

— Will Rogers

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

— Mark Twain

“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either.”

— Aesop

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”

— Paul McCartney

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

— Joseph Stalin

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

— Albert Camus

“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”

— Francis Bacon

“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”

— Ayn Rand

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Where there is no property, there is no injustice.”

— John Locke

“War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.”

— John McCain

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

— David Hume

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

— Aristotle

“I read the Book of Job last night; I don’t think God comes out well in it.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”

— Maya Angelou

“The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When you say you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”

— Albert Camus

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

— Aristotle

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”

— Thomas Merton

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“God's only excuse is that He does not exist.”

— Stendhal

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

— Albert Camus

“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart; there must be a moral bond. First of all, a man can betray is his conscience.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

— William Shakespeare

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.”

— Mark Twain

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.”

— Jeremy Bentham

“Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

— George Herbert

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”

— Elvis Presley

“The object of the superior man is truth.”

— Confucius

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.”

— W. Clement Stone

“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”

— Edmund Burke

“It's all make-believe, isn't it?”

— Marilyn Monroe

“The thing about fantasy is that there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.”

— J.K. Rowling

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”

— Plato

“Do not worship me; I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.”

— Haile Selassie

“Humans merely share the earth; we can only protect the land, not own it.”

— Chief Seattle

“Women have no sympathy, and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”

— Florence Nightingale

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

— Sigmund Freud

“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is, but only how He is not.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”

— William Butler Yeats

“The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.”

— Daniel Webster

“Character is destiny.”

— Heraclitus

“Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

— Steve Wozniak

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty, is mysterious.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.”

— Voltaire

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

— Sigmund Freud

“I believe that truth has only one face, that of a violent contradiction.”

— Georges Bataille

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

— Edmund Burke

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

— Arthur Miller

“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”

— John Morley

“Everyone's quick to blame the alien.”

— Aeschylus

“Be as you wish to seem.”

— Socrates

“If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'”

— John Wayne

“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise.”

— David Hume

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

— Winston Churchill

“Truth is the daughter of time.”

— Aulus Gellius

“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

“Where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”

— Martin Luther

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”

— Ann Landers

“The truth is lived, not taught.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men, for their approbation; but deeds can be done only for God.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

— Niels Bohr

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”

— Graham Greene

“It is always easier to requite an injury than a service; gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.”

— Tacitus

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

— Terry Pratchett

“God is even though the whole world deny Him; truth stands even if there be no public support; it is self-sustained.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.”

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

— Winston Churchill

“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection; no, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace in it.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

— Karl Marx

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

— Albert Einstein

“If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”

— Jefferson Davis

“Only one thing is impossible for God to find: any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”

— Mark Twain

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is, but only how He is not.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“What is the damnation of hell to go with that society who have not obeyed his commands?”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

“Hypocrite reader, my fellow, my brother!”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”

— Thomas Huxley

“Actions have consequences.”

— Tom Cotton

“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.”

— Idi Amin

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

— David Hume

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”

— James A. Garfield

“Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.”

— Fidel Castro

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.”

— John Keats

“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.”

— Sophocles

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.”

— Alan Watts

“History is written by the victors.”

— Winston Churchill

“If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.”

— Montesquieu

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Nature is wont to hide herself.”

— Heraclitus

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reason is immortal; all else mortal.”

— Pythagoras

“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”

— Euclid

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

— Thomas Paine

“The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

— Mark Twain

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”

— Alexander Hamilton

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”

— George Seaton

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

— Ayn Rand

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.”

— Winston Churchill

“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

— Voltaire

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

— Thomas Paine

“A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.”

— Horace

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

— Karl Marx

“That God does not exist; I cannot deny that my whole being cries out for God; I cannot forget.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

— Albert Camus

“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.”

— Richard Whately

“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

— Johannes Kepler

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have; let us economize it.”

— Mark Twain

“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

— Rick Warren

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

— Sophocles

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”

— John Locke

“It is not who is right, but what is right that is of importance.”

— Thomas Huxley

“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”

— Tupac Shakur

“Those that don't got it can't show it. Those that got it can't hide it.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Man is what he believes.”

— Anton Chekhov

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”

— James A. Garfield

“If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me?”

— Annie Dillard

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“It is the spectator and not life that art really mirrors.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

— William Shakespeare

“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”

— Paul Valéry

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

— Confucius

“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

— H.L. Mencken

“We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.”

— Epictetus

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”

— Anton Chekhov

“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”

— Malcolm X

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

— Thomas Paine

“Some stories are true that never happened.”

— Elie Wiesel

“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Poetry is about the grief; politics is about the grievance.”

— Robert Frost

“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.”

— Virgil

“In order to create lasting security, you must learn to stand in your truth.”

— Suze Orman

“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.”

— Jesse Ventura

“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.”

— Plato

“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Talk of the devil and his horns appear.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”

— Plato

“We are free to yield to truth.”

— Horace

“A word once sent abroad flies irrevocably.”

— Horace

“My life is my argument.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”

— Isaac Asimov

“By doubting we are led to question; by questioning we arrive at the truth.”

— Peter Abelard

“Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.”

— Emile Durkheim

“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”

— Julius Caesar

“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”

— François Rabelais

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”

— Euripides

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

— Albert Einstein

“What we wish, that we readily believe.”

— Demosthenes

“Fidelity is the sister of Justice.”

— Horace

“There are some people that if they don't know you, can't tell them.”

— Louis Armstrong

“Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.”

— Chuck Colson

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

— Mark Twain

“Conventionality is not morality.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”

— Wallace Stevens

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

— Voltaire

“Look! Don't be deceived by appearances; men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the Rock are in the sea.”

— William Booth

“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”

— Ayn Rand

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

— William Penn

“To pretend I actually do the thing I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”

— Jacques Derrida

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”

— H.L. Mencken

“You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.”

— Scott Adams

“They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams; I painted my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

“All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”

— Epictetus

“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.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Love of God is not always the same as love of good.”

— Hermann Hesse

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

— Samuel Johnson

“History is written by the victors.”

— Winston Churchill

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”

— Mark Twain

“Justice is truth in action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”

— John Ciardi

“Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.”

— Franklin P. Jones

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

— Billy Wilder

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.”

— Douglas Adams

“I never said half the things I said.”

— Yogi Berra

“In our leisure, we reveal what kind of people we are.”

— Ovid

“All a poet can do today is warn.”

— Wilfred Owen

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

“Civilization is what makes you sick.”

— Paul Gauguin

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it forever.”

— Nadine Gordimer

“There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist and not an idiot.”

— Richard Dawkins

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

— Isaac Asimov

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say.”

— George Santayana

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”

— George Washington

“Silence is safer than speech.”

— Epictetus

“As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”

— James Madison

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”

— Voltaire

“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”

— Martin Heidegger

“Yet if anyone believes that the Earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

— Mark Twain

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

— William Shakespeare

“The Son of God became man so that we might become God.”

— Athanasius

“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.”

— Immanuel Kant

“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”

— Thomas Mann

“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”

— Francis Bacon

“Don't trust anyone over 30.”

— Pat Boone

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

— Albert Einstein

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The mediation by the serpent was necessary; evil can seduce man but cannot become man.”

— Franz Kafka

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”

— Aesop

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Reason is the enemy of faith.”

— Martin Luther

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”

— David Lloyd George

“God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

— H.L. Mencken

“We are all born marked for evil.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Those who will not reason are bigots; those who cannot are fools; and those who dare not are slaves.”

— Lord Byron

“I have to be seen to be believed.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”

— Emily Dickinson

“I never said most of the things I said.”

— Yogi Berra

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”

— Jessamyn West

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”

— Alexander Hamilton

“Virtue is harmony.”

— Pythagoras

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

— Mark Twain

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

— William Blake

“If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.”

— Peter Hitchens

“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”

— Kurt Cobain

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

— Agatha Christie

“There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.”

— George Michael

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful; good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.”

— Lao Tzu

“I'd rather be dead than cool.”

— Kurt Cobain

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”

— Meister Eckhart

“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I have not told half of what I saw.”

— Marco Polo

“Remember, you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”

— Alexander Pope

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”

— Voltaire

“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

— Isaac Newton

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.”

— Bill Gates

“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

— Albert Einstein

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Belief creates the actual fact.”

— William James

“Men often act knowingly against their interest.”

— David Hume

“All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“In all science, error precedes the truth; and it is better it should go first than last.”

— Horace Walpole

“Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”

— Lao Tzu

“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”

— François Rabelais

“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.”

— Dalai Lama

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

— Winston Churchill

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“This is my truth; tell me yours.”

— Aneurin Bevan

“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”

— William Law

“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”

— Immanuel Kant

“God is one, the greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.”

— Xenophanes

“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

“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”

— Mary Kay Ash

“Lying can never save us from another lie.”

— Vaclav Havel

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”

— Lao Tzu

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

— Plato

“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”

— Simon Sinek

“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”

— George Orwell

“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.”

— Sallust

“Our body is dependant on heaven, and heaven on the spirit.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

— Oscar Wilde

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”

— Aleister Crowley

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”

— Tertullian

“What can be shown cannot be said.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.”

— J.D. Salinger

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, everything is a gag.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil but a necessary evil.”

— Menander

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

— Jane Austen

“No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J.K. Rowling

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.”

— Gary Oldman

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

— Ayn Rand

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

— Winston Churchill

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”

— James A. Baldwin

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Country music is three chords and the truth.”

— Harlan Howard

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world; lies will pass into history.”

— George Orwell

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”

— Bertrand Russell

“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the Church as a human being.”

— James Joyce

“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”

— Antonio Gramsci

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

— Mark Twain

“Tragedy is like strong acid; it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“I have to be seen to be believed.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly; equality is in regarding different things differently.”

— Tom Robbins

“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won't.”

— Hyman Rickover

“Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are two sides to every question.”

— Protagoras

“The lie is a condition of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Conscience is a man's compass.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

— Carl Sagan

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

— Stephen Colbert

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

— George Orwell

“Justice is the sum of all moral duty.”

— William Godwin

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

— Plato

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”

— Isaac Newton

“A word once uttered can never be recalled.”

— Horace

“All religions have been made by men.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

— Albert Camus

“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”

— John von Neumann

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

— Aldous Huxley

“In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others; in ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

— Immanuel Kant

“A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

— Albert Einstein

“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”

— Horace

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

— Albert Einstein

“I really don't believe in magic.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”

— Aldous Huxley

“No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.”

— Mark Twain

“A half-truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”

— Stendhal

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

— H.L. Mencken

“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”

— Lily Tomlin

“Religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.”

— Hosea Ballou

“All fixed patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

— Bruce Lee

“When men make themselves into brutes, it is just to treat them like brutes.”

— Amelia Barr

“Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”

— Mark Twain

“To do a great right, do a little wrong.”

— William Shakespeare

“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Trust not too much to appearances.”

— Virgil

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”

— Philip Sidney

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”

— George Washington

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”

— Virginia Woolf

“A liar should have a good memory.”

— Quintilian

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”

— George Washington Carver

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society.”

— John Adams

“No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”

— Ron Weasley

“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.”

— Hesiod

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.”

— Émile Zola

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”

— Arthur Balfour

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”

— Anton Chekhov

“The authentic self is the soul made visible.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”

— Frederick Douglass

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”

— Franz Kafka

“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be; moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

— Thomas Paine

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance; the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best; we say yes merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.”

— Frank Crane

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

— Alexander Pope

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

— Edmund Burke

“Nature does nothing in vain.”

— Aristotle

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“Evolution and creationism both require faith; it's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.”

— Benjamin Carson

“The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.”

— Voltaire

“The oppression of any people for opinions' sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.”

— Hosea Ballou

“The body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.”

— Rumi

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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