“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
More from Tacitus on Truth
“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.”
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
“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“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.”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
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.”