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Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings1818–1885Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)
Don’t be “consistent” but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Edmund Burke
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (1623)In context
All malice has injustice at it’s end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Inferno, Canto XI
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Marquis of Lossie, Chapter LXXI.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Time Must Have a Stop (1944), Ch. 30 (Bruno Rontini)
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