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Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
- Beauty
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan1927–2003Often credited to Unattributed
- Facts
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates470–399 BC
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain1835–1910
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
- War & Peace
If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking…the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Ayn Rand1905–1982
- Faith
- Morality
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain1835–1910And I by Opie Read
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 7.
The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell1903–1950
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain1835–1910