3 December 2020 Albert Pike The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
3 December 2020 William James Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
3 December 2020 Pedro Calderon de la Barca But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
3 December 2020 Sarah Silverman It shows the truth – that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn’t.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
3 December 2020 Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
3 December 2020 Ramakrishna The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Davis Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don’t want to see the truth!
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.
3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
3 December 2020 Patrick Henry For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
