“Humans can believe things for two reasons: because they have grounds for thinking they’re true, or to affirm a myth that unites and emboldens the tribe,”
~ Steven Pinker / Quoted in the NYT, December 16th, 2020
Rachel Cusk on Integrity
“…and so I would think you get a lot further by sticking to your guns… and not trying to second-guess what people want to read.”
~ Rachel Cusk / Louisiana Channel
Antonio Pierro on Truth
Tell the truth. There’s no other way.
~ Antonio Pierro
Søren Kierkegaard on Truth
Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?
~ Søren Kierkegaard
Tacitus on Truth
“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
~
Tacitus on Truth
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
~
Mahatma Gandhi on Truth
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
~
Aldous Huxley on Facts
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
~ Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
Mahatma Gandhi on Victory
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
~
Joe Klaas on Truth
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
~ Twelve Steps to Happiness
Oscar Wilde on Truth
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
~ The Importance of Being Earnest
Marcus Aurelius on Truth
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
William Shakespeare on Truth
…but in the end truth will out.
~ William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin on Truth
Half the truth is often a great lie.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin on Truth
Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain on Truth
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
~ Mark Twain
Carl Jung on Lying
“All men are liars, certainly. I just let them sit in that chair & lie till they get tired of lying. Then they begin to tell the truth.”
~ Carl Jung
William Shakespeare on Truth and Honour
“These are the vulgar tenders of false men,
That never pay the duty of their words.”
~ William Shakespeare
Buddha on Truth
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
~ Buddha
Hunter Thompson on Truth and Justice
“There is not much evidence in history of either God or Justice. The best we can hope for is Truth.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Buddha on Honesty
“Like a lovely flower, bright and fragrant, are the fine and truthful words of one who means what they say.”
~ Buddha
William Shakespeare on Punishment
“They’ll have me whipt for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipt for lying; and sometimes I am whipt for holding my peace.”
~ William Shakespeare
Confucius on Truth
“The object of the superior man is truth.”
~ Confucius
George Bernard Shaw on Truth
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
William Shakespeare on Time
“Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light,
To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
To wake the morn, and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger till he render right”
~ William Shakespeare
St. Gregory The Great on Scandals
“It is better that scandals arise than the truth be suppressed.”
~ St. Gregory The Great
William Shakespeare
“Truth will come to light.”
~ William Shakespeare
Plato on Truth
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
~ Plato
Cato the Younger on Truths
“Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never.”
~ Cato the Younger