“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
“Justice is truth in action.”
“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.”
“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”
“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.”
“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”