“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
More from Tacitus on Truth
“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
“The more corrupt the state the more laws.”
“Where they make a desert they call it peace.”
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”