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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid read more
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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.
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, read more
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is read more
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
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.
I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!
