Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"Men! The only animal in the world to fear"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Very few of us are what we seem"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

Charles Darwin

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news"

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"One man's constant is another man's variable"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

Alan Perlis

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always"

Andre Malraux, Author

Andre Malraux

"Facts are facts, and will not disappear on account of your likes"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

Jawaharlal Nehru

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world"

Rene Magritte, Artist

Rene Magritte

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Only the madman is absolutely sure"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"The truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it"

Emile Zola, Novelist

Emile Zola

"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface"

Edward Hopper, Artist

Edward Hopper

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent"

Stendhal, Writer

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