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Truth Quotes - Page 5

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1071, Vintage

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Antonio Gramsci (1957). “The Open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci: Translated and Annotated by Carl Marzani”

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

A Fragment on Government preface (1776). Bentham said that he derived this formula from either Joseph Priestley or Cesare Beccaria; Beccaria is the more likely. If Priestley was the source, then Bentham was paraphrasing him because the phrase is not found in Priestley's writings. See Beccaria 1; Hutcheson 1

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.626, World Scientific

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.