Champagne if you are seeking the truth is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive even reckless while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble At a touch; nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth so Truth be in the field we do ingloriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth … and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.
There are two kinds of truth small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
Once you eliminate the impossible whatever remains no matter how improbable must be the truth.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Champagne if you are seeking the truth is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive even reckless while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and virtue the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who do.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers; But error wounded writhes in pain and dies among his worshippers.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then. Life is boring without it.
An Charlie hes my darling my darling my darling Charlie hes my darling the young Chevalier.
And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error lest you get your brains kicked out.
The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice And her constant companion is Humility.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.
If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said truth is the daughter of time.
Truth like a torch the more tis shook it shines.
Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble At a touch; nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
You need not tell the truth unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth so Truth be in the field we do ingloriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
We know the truth not only by the reason but by the heart.
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Is not the truth the truth?
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
There are truths which are not for all men nor for all times.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end there it is.
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue the basis of moral authority: it is the highest summit of art and of life.
Plato is dear to me but dearer still is truth.
Not being known doesnt stop the truth from being true.
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth … and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.
I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all how does it rain?
It is unfortunate considering that enthusiasm moves the world that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Truth is the cry of all but the game of the few.
Theres an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
TRUTHFUL adj. Dumb and illiterate.
When you want to fool the world tell the truth.
There are two kinds of truth small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
Nothing but truth is lovely nothing fair.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
So absolutely good is truth truth never hurts The teller.