#ruth

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#always #another #commonplaces #dictum #experience

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

#poetry #truth #way

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#falsehood #himself #man #narrow #near

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

#composer #foundation #modern #truth #upon

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#christianity #great #hater #liar #may

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth. ↗

— Corey Clark

#happens #just #me #telling #telling the truth

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever. ↗

— Michael Moore

#ever #face #favor #few #friends

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#bind #often #ourselves #rather #than

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #bribery #deception #exhausted #few

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude