“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~”
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“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~”
“All that glisters is not gold.”
“All will come out in the washing.”
“A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
“Honesty is the best policy.”
“They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.”
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.”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
Tacitus
6 quotes“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
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.”