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"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Tennyson
"A thief believes everybody steals." -E.W. Howe
"Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. (Let justice be done, though the world perish.)" -Ferdinand I
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. -William Sloan Coffin
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. - Giordano Bruno
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe." George Bernard Shaw
"One must proceed carefully in this business. On guard against one's desire for it to be true or not to be true. One must remain as much as possible, Neutral."
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is the daughter of time, not authority." Bacon
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger -Tad Williams, Spoken by Dr. Morgenes, To Green Angel Tower (part of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless shall be king."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H.L. Mencken
What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others. - Albert Camus
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. - George Santayana
We are never deceived. We deceive ourselves. -- Goethe
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. --Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. - Jean Giraudoux
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always exceeded the demand. - Anonymous
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
A truths that told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. -William Blake
"If you pick a truth and follow it blindly. It becomes a falsehood, and you a fanatic."
"Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies?" --Stephen King
The man flew in red summer and she handed him whispers for a castle. The night owls have peace and sadness on their watch, but he worships her lies and thinks it is for the best. -Chris McQuinn
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. ~Stephen King
“Wouldn’t it be nice… to Believe- just for a little while.” ~taken horribly out of context from the Mists of Avalon (the movie)
"Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have." -Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Tennyson
"Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish."
-Ferdinand I
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ~William Sloan Coffin
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. - Giordano Bruno
'There is no truth beyond magic' ... reality is strange. Many people think reality is prosaic. I don't. We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery. -Brian Goodwin quoted by Roger Lewin in Complexity (1992)
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
"The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe." George Bernard Shaw
"One must proceed carefully in this business. On guard against one's desire for it to be true or not to be true. One must remain as much as possible, Neutral."
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is the daughter of time, not authority." Bacon
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger -Tad Williams, Spoken by Dr. Morgenes, To Green Angel Tower (part of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H.L. Mencken
What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others. - Albert Camus
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. - George Santayana
We are never deceived. We deceive ourselves. -- Goethe
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. --Madeleine L'Engle
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -- Ocsar Wilde
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. - Jean Giraudoux
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always exceeded the demand. – Anonymous
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
A truths that told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. -William Blake
"If you pick a truth and follow it blindly. It becomes a falsehood, and you a fanatic."
"Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies?" --Stephen King
The man flew in red summer and she handed him whispers for a castle. The night owls have peace and sadness on their watch, but he worships her lies and thinks it is for the best. -Chris McQuinn
"Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it." - G.K. Chesterton
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