Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes By doubting we all come at truth.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.~ Bill Clinton There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election.~ Bill Clinton The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth.~ Bill Clinton Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.~ Bill Clinton I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth.~ Bill Clinton Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.~ Charles Caleb Colton Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.~ Henry Steele Commager Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.~ Henry Steele Commager The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.~ Henry Steele Commager America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.~ Henry Steele Commager If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.~ Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.~ Confucius No mask like open truth to cover lies,As to go naked is the best disguise.~ William Congreve Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.~ Joseph Conrad Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.~ Calvin Coolidge Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.~ Thomas Cooper When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.~ Bill Copeland Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print