“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”
“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.”
“God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”
“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”
“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”
“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”