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Truth Quotes - Page 46

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.187

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred Russel Wallace (1991). “Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul.

Albert Gallatin Mackey (1867). “The Mystic Tie: Or, Facts and Opinions, Illustrative of the Character and Tendency of Freemasonry”, p.7

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster