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Quote DB :: Truth & Lies Search in this category Facts (11) Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "It's not enough to speak, but to speak true." William Shakespeare "Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism." Hunter S. Thompson "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all." Edmund Burke "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true." Henry Kissinger "Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true." Marcel Proust "If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind." Ayn Rand "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." George Bernard Shaw "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C.S. Lewis "Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it." Mark Twain "The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it." Mark Twain "When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." Otto von Bismarck "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." Oliver Wendell Holmes "Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies." Mark Twain "Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately." Nicolo Machiavelli "There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve." George MacDonald "You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police." Jack Nicholson "Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use." Mark Twain "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." Hunter S. Thompson "A man never lies as much as after a hunt, during a war, and before an election." Otto von Bismarck "A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth." George Dennison Prentice << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next >> Browse Truth & Lies quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Adolf Hitler Aldous Huxley Aristotle Author Unknown Ayn Rand Baltasar Gracian Benjamin Franklin Charles Caleb Colton Chris Bowyer C.S. Lewis Daniel Webster Dante Alighieri Edmund Burke Edward R. Murrow Emily Dickinson Ernest Hemingway Friedrich Nietzsche George Bernard Shaw George Dennison Prentice George MacDonald George Orwell George Washington GK Chesterton Harry Truman Henry Kissinger Henry Mencken Hunter S. Thompson Isaac Newton Jack Nicholson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Keats Josh Billings Mahatma Gandhi Marcel Proust Margaret Thatcher Mark Twain Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Arnold Nachman of Bratslav Napoleon Bonaparte Nicolo Machiavelli Oliver Wendell Holmes Otto von Bismarck Plato Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Samuel Goldwyn Socrates Stephen King Tacitus Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine William Shakespeare Winston Churchill

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