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Quotes About Truth

Logic,' indeed!
~ Vladimir Lenin
This is so true [...]
~ Vladimir Lenin
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
~ Vladimir Nabakov
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Bir toplant? çok say?da insan?n bir araya geldiÄŸi, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte düÅŸünmediklerini söyledikleri, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte yapt?klar?n? söylemedikleri bir düzenlemedir. -Er İvan Çonkin'in YaÅŸam? ve OlaÄŸanüstü Serüvenleri
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
He who speaks the truth often has no ruth.
~ Unknown
No smiths forge myths.
~ Unknown
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
~ Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
~ Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
~ Voltaire
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
~ Voltaire
Historians are gossips who tease the dead.
~ Voltaire
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
~ Voltaire
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
~ Voltaire
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you.
~ Voltaire
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
~ Voltaire
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
~ Voltaire
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
~ Voltaire
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
~ Voltaire
Love truth, and pardon error.
~ Voltaire
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
~ Voltaire