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About the Truth
"Ignorance
is an enemy, even to its owner. How
happy is he born and taught "Art
is a lie which makes us realize the truth." "Our
intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease
with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted
by other hardwired propensities -- sometimes themselves disguised
as the cool light of reason -- is worrisome." "You
cannot kill truth; you cannot kill justice; you cannot kill
what we are fighting for." I
never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's
hell." What
are heavy? "Dare
to be true: nothing can need a lie; "This
saying is both true and terse: "If
you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only
for such time as the State can shield the people from the political,
economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes
vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to
repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the
State." "Great
contest follows, and much learned dust "Oftentimes,
to win us to our harm, "When
fiction rises pleasing to the eye, "Do
not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to
be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness,
no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge
of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long
remembered." "The
truth is found when men are free to pursue it." "Evil
springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, "...the chief
'truth' that guided the Founders was 'that men were corruptible
and that power always corrupted.' They believed that 'greed
and lust for power ... were inquenchable in mortal men.' ...
The great concern of the Founders was tyranny. After all, they
had just barely escaped the clutches of King George ... The
last thing they wanted was a power-hungry president, a domestic
King George ... The Founders did not trust
men's natural inclinations.
... (they) envisioned a supreme legislative branch as the heart
and soul of America's central government. They assumed that
Congress, drawn from all parts of the country, would initiate
bills, set budgets, approve wars, provide national leadership,
and if necessary, impeach and toss out a wayward president.
After all, who would give supreme powers to one man, or woman?" "The
truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." "I
am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can
be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point
is to bring them the real facts." "Truth
is the glue that holds government together." "There
is nothing as powerful as the truth and often nothing as strange." "Bad
taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."
"When
you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey." "We
will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the truth
as we find it and the right as we see it. We are dedicated to
the whole truth, to human values above all interests, to the
rights of man as the foundation of democracy; we will take orders
from none but our own conscience, and never will we overlook
or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of the powerful
or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit." "Truth is the
best armour to fight evil in life. I will tread the path of life
with the torch of truth ever ablaze in my hand. From dawn to dusk,
I will be true both in words and in deeds." "Actually, truth
dies more quickly in the war of words than one of swords, and
the more emotional the debate, the quicker the death." "But the involuntary
tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always
such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought
and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more
or less disfigured condition." "The truth that's
told with bad intent "...whenever you
have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth." "The individual
point of view is the only point of view from which one is able
to look at the world in its truth." "Truth is mighty
and will prevail. "Truth is such
a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it." Tell all the Truth
but tell it slant- "Truth is, you're
always going to lose when you play a game of cat and mouse with
the cat." "Losing an illusion
makes you wiser than finding a truth." "It is one thing
to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession
of the truth." Integrity without knowledge
is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful. "I deny the lawfulness
of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have
no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth." "A lie can travel
halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." "If you tell the truth,
you don't have to remember anything." "Truth emerges
more readily from error than from confusion." "The greatest
truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is
the potential for greatness." "The pure and
simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." "I never give
them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." "Truth stood on
one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so." "And let the truth
be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality." "The pursuit of
truth shall set you free—even if you never catch up with
it." "It is error alone which needs
the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." "It is easier for a
king to have a lie believed than a beggar to spread the truth." "During times of universal
deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." "The most dangerous
untruths are truths slightly distorted." "Truth exists,
only falsehood has to be invented." "Truth is beautiful,
without doubt; but so are lies." "There are truths
which can kill a nation." "The truth is
violated by falsehood but outraged by silence." "All truth passes through
three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently
opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." "When one has
one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it." "The terrible
thing about the quest for truth is that you find it." "Time is precious,
but truth is more precious than time." "Truth is what
stands the test of experience." "If you are out
to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "How often have
I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" "Truth is always
paradoxical." "It is not by
the sword or the spear, by soldiers or by armed force that truth
is to be promoted, but by counsel and gentle persuasion. " "The least initial
deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. " "The sad truth
is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds
to be good or evil. " "Nothing overshadows
truth so much as authority." "Say not unto
thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation
raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made
by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?" "Evil people hate
the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They
will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid
the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to
its ultimate, extraordinary extreme." "Believing ourselves
to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every
person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster
and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters
and threats to our fellows." "Such is the irresistible
nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty
of appearing. " "The opposite of a
correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound
truth may well be another profound truth." "We shall some
day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have
our religion and our immortality." "There is a tragic
clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted Truth burns
up the world. " "Spiritual maturity
is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." "The dream begins,
most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs
and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking
you with a sharp stick called truth." "Nothing hurts
a new truth more than an old error." "Why tell me that
a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?" "A lie has speed, but
truth has endurance." "Truth isn't always
beauty, but the hunger for it is." "Truth we learn
in pain and sighs..." "Did I follow
Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for
a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would
be remembered among men..." "Where thou art
Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is
half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell." "Nothing does
Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: For
Truth often suffers more by the Heat of its Defenders, than from
the Arguments of its Opposers." "If you seek Truth,
you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and
when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated." "But, indeed,
the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one
of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another
till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution.
If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries." "He who tells
the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." "In the mountains
of truth you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher
point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able
to climb higher tomorrow." "It is terrible
to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth
so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?" "The poetry of history
lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once on this earth, on
this familiar spot of ground walked other men and women as actual
as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their
own passions but now all gone, vanishing after another, gone as
utterly as we ourselves shall be gone like ghosts at cockcrow."
- "The theory of
a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not
that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." "There are always
in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding
generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some
weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies
for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during
the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes
for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic
sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes
one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent
effect in increased manliness. " - "If you wish to
experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know
that you are safe, cause [others] to know that they are safe.
If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things,
help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own
sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.
Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you
for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding,
and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking
to you for love." "I am aware that
I shall be told that the work of thought which I have insisted
on is difficult, that to collect and concentrate the mind for
the truth is harder than to toil with the hands. Be it so. But
are we weak enough to hope to rise without toil? Does any man,
laborer or not, expect to invigorate body or mind without strenuous
effort? Does not the child grow and get strength by throwing a
degree of hardship and vehemence and conflict into his very sports?
Does not life without difficulty become insipid and joyless? Cannot
a strong interest turn difficulty into pleasure? Let the love
of truth, of which I have spoken, be awakened, and obstacles in
the way to it will whet, not discourage, the mind, and inspire
a new delight into its acquisition." "All sports and
exercises shall be a part of his study; running, wrestling, musicke,
dancing, hunting, and managing of armes and horses. I would have
the exterior demeanor or decencie, and the disposition of his
person to be fashioned together with his mind: for, it is not
a mind, it is not a body that we erect, but it is a man, and we
must not make two parts of him. And as Plato saith, They must
not be erected one without another, but equally be directed, no
otherwise than a couple of horses matched to draw in one selfe-same
teeme. And to heare him, doth he not seeme to imploy more time
and care in the exercises of his bodie: and to thinke that the
minde is together with the same exercised, and not the contrarie?" It is no proof of
a mans understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;
but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that
what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. "The soul is the
perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it,
let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask
you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How
do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know
truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake
that we are awake." "It's not what you
don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that just isn't
so." "Mother always told
me, if you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good
to you, it won't sound good to no one else." "Everything I
wrote was true because I believed what I saw." "Truth never damages
a cause that is just." "In the struggle for
existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after
all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn." "You cannot grow a
beard in a moment of passion." "One must keep
repeating the Truth." "Truth is for
the minority." "Truth always
lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time." "Follow not truth
too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth." "The exact contrary
of what is generally believed is often the truth." "I cannot comprehend
how any man can want anything but the truth." "There's a little
truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. " "No one is entitled
to the truth." "Crazy that you are,
why do you promise yourself to live a long time, you who cannot
count on a single day." "Vae victis."
(Woe to the vanquished.) "Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." "Tell troth and
shame the devil." "I have discovered
the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never
believe me." "A kiss may not
be the truth, but it is what we wish were true." "Truth, like a
torch, the more it's shook it shines." "Believe those who
are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." "Three things cannot
be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." "I see the truth
of it!" "Never tell the
truth to those unworthy of it." "The Truth against
the world." "Man will occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself
up and continue on." "You
want the truth? You can't handle the truth." "You
want the truth? No truth handler, you. I deride your truth handling
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