Truth and Falsity

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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Niels Bohr

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

Thomas Jefferson

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."

Giordano Bruno

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Good and Evil

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."

Mahatma Gandhi

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others."

Gerry Spence

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You'll catch a liar before you'll catch a cripple."

Catalan Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance."

Ashley-Cooper-Anthony

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line."

John Tillotson

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

Theodor Adorno

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

Richard Bach

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A lie has no legs."

English Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

Pearl Bailey

Human

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Henry David Thoreau

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?"

Lois McMaster Bujold

Human

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The truth knocks on the door and you say,"Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away."

Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."

Henry David Thoreau

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

Sigmund Freud

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

Freya Madeline Stark

Happiness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

John Ruskin

Beauty and Ugliness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Ludwig Borne

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

Alfred North Whitehead

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."

David Reisman

Question and Problem

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A good compliment is a truth, but presented in a favorable light."

Kazimierz Matan

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Who says what he should, does not say what he thinks."

Kazimierz Matan

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The truth lies where it should, but we are looking for it all the wrong places."

Kazimierz Matan

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

Dandemis

Intellect, Judgement

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Humor is the same as truth, only faster."

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Truth and Falsity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

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Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."

Philip Guedalla

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."

Robert Bresson

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Hell is truth seen too late."

John Locke

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."

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Sorrow and Nostalgia

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Tell the masses a lie often enough and for long enough, sooner or later they will all believe it."

Joseph Goebbels

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Lost illusions are truths discovered."

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Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana

History and Nations

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Mahatma Gandhi "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Justice

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Speak the truth but leave immediately after."

Slovenian Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Error is to truth as sleep is to waking."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Art and Antiquity"

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Aaron Levenstein

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Sin and Conscience

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to take part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else."

Mark Twain

Memory

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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