quote: truth
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. – Oscar Wilde
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He who cannot lie, knows not what truth is. – Nietzsche
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously. – Thomas Sowell
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach…
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Give a man a mask, and he shall tell the truth. – Unknown
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Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. If the iron…
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It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. – L. Neil Smith
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We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given…