Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [721-740] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.~ Voltaire What is not in nature can never be true.~ Voltaire History is fables agreed upon.~ Voltaire Your book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.~ Voltaire God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.~ Voltaire It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.~ Voltaire The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.~ Voltaire The superfluous is very necessary.~ Voltaire There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.~ Ludwig von Mises Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.~ Lemuel K. Washburn A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority. ~ Booker T. Washington If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George Washington There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.~ George Washington No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.~ Daniel Webster Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.~ Daniel Webster Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.~ H. G. Wells You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger… Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.~ William Allen White Every really new idea looks crazy at first.~ Alfred North Whitehead Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.~ Oscar Wilde Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print