Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.~ Noel Coward He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.~ William Cowper He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.~ William Cowper The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.~ Patrick Cox In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.~ Nelson Antrim Crawford We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.~ John Culkin Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.~ Leonardo Da Vinci It takes a long time to understand nothing.~ Edward Dahlberg Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. ~ Theodore Dalrymple Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.~ Clarence S. Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.~ Clarence S. Darrow The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.~ Clarence S. Darrow To suppose that the eye [...] could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.~ Charles Darwin False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.~ Charles Darwin This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.~ Elmer Davis Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.~ Richard Dawkins There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.~ Honoré de Balzac The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.~ Remy De Gourmont He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.~ Michel de Montaigne If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.~ Michel De Montaigne Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print