Truth and Falsity

"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

William Somerset Maugham "Cakes and Ale"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it."

Henry Brooks Adams "The Education of Henry Adams"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

Pablo Picasso

Question and Problem

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""

Henrik Ibsen "The Wild Duck"

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-these are the pillars of society."

Henrik Ibsen "Pillars of Society"

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."

Amiel-Henri-Frederic "Journal Intime"

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell "Inside the Whale and Other Essays"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire "Premiere Lettre sur Oedipe"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

Aldous Huxley "Jesting Pilate"

Truth and Falsity

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Loyalty and Betrayal

Truth and Falsity

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

Hubert Humphrey

Trust

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last."

Greg Evans

Anger

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Talent and Genius

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

Virginia Woolf

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

Samuel Goldwyn

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Probability is truth in some degree."

Errol E. Harris "Hypothesis and Perception"

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."

Danish Proverbs

Art and Culture

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."

Ann Landers

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 1.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Instinct is the direct connection with truth."

Laurette Taylor

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies."

Click if you know the author

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

Stephen King

Trust

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

Edith Sitwell "Taken Care Of"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 1.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."

Mel Brooks

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."

Ayn Rand

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

Aleksandr Pushkin

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth."

Henry Wotton

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them."

Orson Scott Card "Speaker for the Dead"

Love

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 1.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors."

Peter Mere Latham

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal."

Max Heindel

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When war is declared, truth is the first casualty."

Arthur Ponsonby

Peace and War

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A truth spoken before its time is dangerous."

Greek Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The truth is like ice water, it shocks you when it hits you, but no one's ever died from it."

Click if you know the author

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sin and Conscience

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."

Horace Mann

Success and Fame

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)