Quotes with truth

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  • Joseph Conrad A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Alexis Carrel A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Baruch Spinoza A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • William Shenstone A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Aesop A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Mark Twain A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Tim O'Brien A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Epictetus A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new untruth is better than an old truth.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Graham Greene A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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