Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [421-440] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes ...as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.~ Paul Krugman The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.~ R. D. Laing I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.~ Charles Lamb Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.~ Louis Lamour No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.~ Harold J. Laski History is written by the victor.~ Latin Proverb The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.~ Gustave Le Bon I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.~ John le Carré A teacher is never a giver of truth -- he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.~ Bruce Lee The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max Lerner A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.~ C. S. Lewis A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn't take long before everyone knows.~ C. S. Lewis Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.~ C. S. Lewis In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.~ John Lilly A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.~ Abraham Lincoln When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.~ Abraham Lincoln Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ~ Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~ Abraham Lincoln I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from ... the Declaration of Independence ... that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence ... I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.~ Abraham Lincoln Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print