3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
3 December 2020 Saint Patrick No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God’s good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that – as is the perfect truth – it was the gift of God.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
3 December 2020 George McGovern I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
3 December 2020 Marie Curie There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
3 December 2020 Louis Aragon Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
3 December 2020 Ansel Adams Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
3 December 2020 William F. Buckley, Jr. Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
3 December 2020 William Penn 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.
