Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [701-720] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption -- no, for the Lie, as Virtue, as Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint, simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. ... If this finest of the fine art arts had everywhere received the attention, encouragement, and conscientious practice and development which this club has devoted to it, I should not need to utter this lament, or cry a single tear. I do not say this to flatter. I say it in a spirit of just and appreciative recognition.~ Mark Twain When in doubt, tell the truth.~ Mark Twain If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.~ Sun Tzu The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.~ Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence.~ Unknown A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.~ Unknown Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up.~ Unknown Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.~ Unknown Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.~ Unknown Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.~ Unknown Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.~ Unknown Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.~ Unknown There's a little truth to every 'just kidding'.~ Unknown Truth fears no questions.~ Unknown In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.~ Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.~ Mark Van Doren Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.~ Hendrik van Loon The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.~ Richard A. Viguerie It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.~ Voltaire It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print