3 December 2020 Thomas Paine But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
3 December 2020 Isaac Newton I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
3 December 2020 Nigel Kneale All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you’re just playing about.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Kenny Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
3 December 2020 Johann Lamont Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
3 December 2020 James Madison If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
3 December 2020 Igor Stravinsky I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
3 December 2020 George McGovern The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
3 December 2020 Sophocles How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.
3 December 2020 Paul Scott Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it’s the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people’s hearts lie.
3 December 2020 Kevin O'Leary I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
3 December 2020 Peace Pilgrim This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
3 December 2020 Abdolkarim Soroush Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
