Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Great short quote and quotation by: Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel ,
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Merton , US religious author, […]
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Great short quote and quotation by: Herbert Agar ,
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919) , US jurist (1841 – […]
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. Great short quote and quotation by: William O. Douglas , US jurist (1898 – 1980)
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived. Great short quote and quotation by: Elizabeth Jenkins ,
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the […]
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the […]
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William Sloane Coffin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. Great short quote and quotation by: William Sloane Coffin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin ,
George Sarton, History of Science
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. Great short quote and quotation by: George Sarton, History of Science ,
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Great short quote and quotation by: Agnes Repplier , US essayist (1855 – 1950)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Great short quote and quotation by: Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962 , US movie […]
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