Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If falsehood like truth had only one face, we would be in better shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.~ Michel de Montaigne I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether things are so.~ Michel De Montaigne What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.~ Charles-Louis de Secondat Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.~ Vittorio de Sica Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.~ Miguel de Unamuno This monkey mythology of Darwin is the cause of permissiveness, promiscuity, prophylactics, perversions, pregnancies, abortions, pornotherapy, pollution, poisoning and proliferation of crimes of all types.~ Judge Braswell Dean The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.~ Michael Deaver There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.~ Daniel Dennett If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.~ Rene Descartes Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.~ Sir James Dewar Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.~ John Dewey The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.~ John Dewey Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.~ Emily Dickinson Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.~ Benjamin Disraeli There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.~ Benjamin Disraeli Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.~ Norman Dorsen The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever.~ Rabbi Wayne Dosick A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky Yes; truth blends well with untruth. It is one of the maladies of our age, a sign of sheer nervousness, to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.~ Norman Douglas It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.~ Justice William O. Douglas Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print