Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [641-660] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.~ Herbert Spencer The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.~ Herbert Spencer Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.~ Herbert Spencer For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.~ Lysander Spooner Men cannot see truth, because they love falsehood. The gospel is not seen, because it is too pure for their loose lives and lewd thoughts.~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.~ Stendhal Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness, learning only by incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map of our infintesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness.~ Leslie Stephen If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt, that atheists are as plentiful as blackberries.~ Leslie Stephen Till then we shall be content to admit openly, what you (religionists) whisper under your breath or hide in technical jargon, that the ancient secret is a secret still; that man knows nothing of the Infinite and Absolute; and that, knowing nothing, he had better not be dogmatic about his ignorance. And, meanwhile, we will endeavour to be as charitable as possible, and whilst you trumpet forth officially your contempt for our skepticism, we will at least try to believe that you are imposed upon by your own bluster.~ Leslie Stephen Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.~ Sir Leslie Stephen So, what the cultural elites are doing is what plenty of other authoritarian and totalitarian societies have done in the past. They are making the cost of telling the truth high enough that a general mass of people will be afraid to declare it publicly or even privately. ~ Jarrett Stepman It is a common heresy and its graves are to be found all over the earth. It is the heresy that says you can kill an idea by killing a man, defeat a principle by defeating a person, bury truth by burying its vehicle.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II The cruelest lies are often told in silence.~ Robert Louis Stevenson The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a “personal” right.~ Justice Potter Stewart Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.~ Justice Joseph Story There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.~ Rex Stout The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.~ Herbert B. Swope I think the inherent right of the government to lie to save itself when faced with nuclear disaster is basic -- basic.~ Arthur Sylvester The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas Szasz Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.~ Albert Szent-Gyorgi Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print