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Letter "T" » Truth
«It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.»
Author: A. A. Hodge
(Biographer)
| About:
Men,
Truth,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
intrepid, opposition, score, stand up
«It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Emotion,
Mistakes,
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
accords, comfortable, course, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, most especially, selfish
«It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.»
Author: Giordano Bruno
| About:
Belief,
Mind,
Truth
| Keywords:
base, for one, low, masses, The Masses
«It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.»
«It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath»
«It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.»
«It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Adventure,
Mind,
Truth
| Keywords:
cynicism, excursion, peculiarities, peculiarity, regards
«It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Truth
| Keywords:
acknowledged, fortune, good fortune, possession, universally
«It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.»
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