3 December 2020 Stephen Fry I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
3 December 2020 William Osler There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
3 December 2020 Michael Tippett I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
3 December 2020 John Locke Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
3 December 2020 Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
3 December 2020 James Otis I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It’s hideously bad. Truly rotten.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
3 December 2020 Jane Goodall Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.
3 December 2020 Aristotle For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
3 December 2020 George Orwell The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
3 December 2020 John Locke It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
3 December 2020 Leslie Fiedler My assignment is what every writer’s assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
