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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.
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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
more Stuart Chase quotes
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone’s account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
more Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.
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What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.
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Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
more Chinese Proverb quotes
Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.
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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
more Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes
By doubting we all come at truth.
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It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
more William Kingdon Clifford quotes
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
more Bill Clinton quotes
There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election.
more Bill Clinton quotes
The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth.
more Bill Clinton quotes
Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.
more Bill Clinton quotes
I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth.
more Bill Clinton quotes
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
more Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
more Charles Caleb Colton quotes
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.
more Henry Steele Commager quotes
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
more Henry Steele Commager quotes
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.
more Henry Steele Commager quotes
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
more Henry Steele Commager quotes
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
more Confucius quotes
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies,
As to go naked is the best disguise.

more William Congreve quotes
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.
more Joseph Conrad quotes
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
more Calvin Coolidge quotes
Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
more Thomas Cooper quotes
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
more Bill Copeland quotes
I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.
more Noel Coward quotes
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
more William Cowper quotes
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
more William Cowper quotes
The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.
more Patrick Cox quotes
In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.
more Nelson Antrim Crawford quotes
We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.
more John Culkin quotes
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
more Leonardo Da Vinci quotes
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
more Edward Dahlberg quotes
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. 
more Theodore Dalrymple quotes
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
more Clarence S. Darrow quotes
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