Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.~ Lewis Carroll If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.~ Jimmy Carter Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.~ Helena Cassadine For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.~ Stuart Chase The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone’s account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.~ Chinese Proverb Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.~ Sir Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.~ Sir Winston Churchill Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.~ Sir Winston Churchill In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.~ Sir Winston Churchill The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.~ Sir Winston Churchill There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.~ Sir Winston Churchill This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.~ Winston Churchill Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print