Truth and Falsity

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"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

Eric Hoffer

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

Eric Hoffer

Power and Weakness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are two types of people who can tell you the truth about yourself: an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."

Antisthenes

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive."

Roy Campbell

Beauty and Ugliness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

Lillian Hellman "The Little Foxes"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."

John Osborne "The Hotel in Amsterdam"

Trust

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

Herbert Agar

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."

William James "Varieties of Religious Experience"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history."

Various Proverbs

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."

Thomas Sowell

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth."

Sir John Alexander Macdonald

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth."

Click if you know the author

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."

Stephen Leacock

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Norman Mailer

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

Charles Péguy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances."

Albert Schweitzer

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"My speciality is being right when other people are wrong."

George Bernard Shaw "You Never Can Tell"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

George Santayana "Little Essays"

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Truth exists; only lies are invented."

Georges Braque

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

Sartre-Jean-Paul "The Words"

Dreams and Desires

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."

Jerome K. Jerome

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

Charles de Gaulle

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time tries truth."

English Proverbs

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

Carl Gustav Jung

Knowledge, Ignorance

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Winston Churchill

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth."

Joseph Joubert

Time and Passing

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

Abraham Lincoln

Memory

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return."

Graham Greene

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth is what stands the test of experience."

Albert Einstein

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. "

Voltaire "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Authority, Government

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence."

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither."

Josh Billings

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else."

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."

Ernest Hemingway

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

Samuel Butler

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Love truth, but pardon error."

Voltaire

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Truth is no road to fortune."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Richness and Money

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

André Gide

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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