#ruth

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. ↗

— Mencius

#before #dangerous #time #truth #uttered

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#know #lies #means #people #truth

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#monkey #science #truth #zoo #experience

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#power #sufficient #sufficient evidence #truth

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #compassionate #conservatives #express

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#err #get #go #gut #honest

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public. ↗

— Lance Ito

#certain #courtroom #hide #measure #out