Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [561-580] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Lying is done with words and also with silence.~ Adrienne Rich Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.~ Will Rogers The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.~ Will Rogers It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.~ Will Rogers Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.~ Will Rogers If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance, we must provide a safe place for their perception.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.~ Theodore Roosevelt Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.~ John Ruskin If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.~ Bertrand Russell In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.~ Bertrand Russell Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.~ Bertrand Russell The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.~ Bertrand Russell The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.~ Bertrand Russell The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.~ Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living.~ Bertrand Russell Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.~ Bertrand Russell Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.~ Hassan I. Sabbah Never assume the obvious is true.~ William Safire Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print