Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [301-320] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.~ Patrick Henry Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.~ Heraclitus It is not laissez-faire that has failed. That would be an ill day for men. What has failed is the courage to see what is true and speak it to the people, to point to the true remedies.~ Auberon Herbert Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.~ Herman Hesse Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit...~ Hippocrates In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.~ Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.~ Adolf Hitler What luck for the rulers that men do not think.~ Adolf Hitler The party ... must not become a servant of the masses, but their master. ... The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.~ Adolf Hitler The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.~ Adolf Hitler It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.~ A. A. Hodge Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.~ Thomas Hodgskin Some things have to be believed to be seen.~ Ralph Hodgson Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.~ Eric Hoffer To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats -- we know it not.~ Eric Hoffer A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.~ Richard Hofstadter To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils.~ Thomas Holcroft I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.~ Billie Holiday If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print