Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [601-620] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.~ Arthur Schopenhauer The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.~ C. P. Scott O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter Scott Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The cause of anger is the belief that we are injured; this belief, therefore, should not be lightly entertained. We ought not to fly into a rage even when the injury appears to be open and distinct: for some false things bear the semblance of truth. We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is quality rather than quantity that matters.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Remember, however, before all else, to strip things of all that disturbs and confuses, and to see what each is at bottom; you will then comprehend that they contain nothing fearful except the actual fear.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Should I be surprised that dangers which have always surrounded me should at last attack me? A great part of mankind, when about to sail, do not think of a storm. I shall never be ashamed of a reporter of bad news in a good cause.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What then? Shall I not follow in the footsteps of my predecessors? I shall indeed use the old road, but if I find one that makes a shorter cut and is smoother to travel, I shall open the new road. Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides. Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And there is plenty of it left even for posterity to discover.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca No legacy is so rich as honesty.~ William Shakespeare The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.~ George Bernard Shaw If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.~ George Bernard Shaw All great truths began as blasphemies.~ George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.~ George Bernard Shaw The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.~ George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.~ George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.~ George Bernard Shaw When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.~ George Bernard Shaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print