Upholding truth


  • Honouring truths

Claim

  1. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert Einstein).

  2. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true, or becomes true. (John Lily).

  3. They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. (Plato).

  4. Truth is always the strongest argument. (Sophocles).

  5. The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. (Emile Zola).

  6. If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you can't tell it about other people. (Virginia Woolf).

  7. Love truth, but pardon error. (Voltaire).

  8. All great truth is dealt with in three ways: First it is ridiculed; then it is violently opposed; and finally it is accepted as self-evident. (A. Schopenhauer).

  9. The truth is like a Lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. (Saint Augustine)

Counter claim

  1. The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth. (Alfred Adler).

  2. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (Emerson).

  3. If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library. (Lily Tomlin).

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