Quotations & Sayings

And Lies

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In war, truth is the first casualty.
– Aeschylus

 

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.
– Confucius

 

Truth is the daughter of search
– Arabian Proverb

 

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
– James Boswell

 

The truth is often a terrible wapon of aggression.  It is possilbe to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian Psychiatrist)

 

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
~Arthur Dobrin

 

There is no truth. There is only perception.
~Gustave Flaubert

 

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
– Goethe

 

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 

You must always explain things frankly and explicitly to your lawyer … it is for him to embroil them afterwards.
– Alessandro Manzoni

 

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
– Pythagoras

 

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
– Adrienne Rich

 

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear.
– Henry D Thoreau

 

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~Leo Tolstoy