Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.~ Khalil Gibran Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.~ Khalil Gibran Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.~ Andre Gide Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.~ Brendan Gill Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.~ John Gilmore In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame~ Nikki Giovanni All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some books seem to have been written not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.~ Bobcat Goldthwait Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.~ Goya Truth and news are not the same thing.~ Katharine Graham Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.~ Graham Greene Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney Griswold The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.~ Alexander Haig That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.~ Alexander Haig Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard Haisch To render the magistrate a judge of truth, and engage his authority in the suppression of opinions, shews an inattention to the nature and designs of political liberty.~ Robert Hall Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it.~ Judge Learned Hand We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.~ Sydney J. Harris Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print