“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
More from Aesop on Truth
“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
“Appearances are often deceiving.”
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
John Locke
6 quotes“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“A right delayed is a right denied.”
Osho
6 quotes“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.”