“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
“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.”
“Truth is a tendency.”
“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”
“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.”
“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”
“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”
“The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.”
“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?”
“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”
“What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”
“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.”
“The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.”
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!”
“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”
“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”
“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.”