Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [321-340] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe…that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market… That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob Holyoake I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.~ Homer Truth telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar.~ J. Edgar Hoover The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.~ Elbert Hubbard There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.~ Hubert H. Humphrey Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.~ Anjelica Huston A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.~ Aldous Huxley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~ Aldous Huxley Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.~ Aldous Huxley The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.~ Aldous Huxley My business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact, not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.~ Thomas Henry Huxley The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.~ Henrik Ibsen It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.~ William Ralph Inge The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.~ Robert G. Ingersoll All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print