The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on read more

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

You never find yourself until you face the truth

You never find yourself until you face the truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease read more

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she read more

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.