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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
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.
There was promulgation of false propaganda by
the administration about the existence of weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq. There read more
There was promulgation of false propaganda by
the administration about the existence of weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false
propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.