Quotes About Truth

Many retrospective accounts of collective solidarity of World War II are egregiously sugarcoated.

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.

there is not one good man on earth who does what is best* and doesn't err.

The truth? I saw an artist locking herself in the same prison cell that had almost killed her. Boring is also dangerous. Idle hands, et cetera.

Truth is a bit like depression. It creeps up on you. You don't notice it, you can keep denying it, but once it lands, it's indisputable

The real and genuine wisdom that man can benefit most is the one which leads to everlasting happiness after death ,anything else is vanity.

Ultimate truth is very simple and easy to assimilate, but evil hands try hard to veil it with clouds of suspicions, they often hide in media markets.

Jika masyarakat sudah dibuat tidak meyakini kebenaran ajaran agama, maka yang akan dijadikan pegangan adalah akal manusia semata atau hawa nafsu mereka. Tidak ada standar kebenaran. Pada ketika itulah masyarakat akan terseret ke dalam arus nilai yang serba relatif dan temporal. Kebenaran tergantung pada kesepakatan. Agama tidak diberi hak untuk campur tangan untuk menentukan baik dan buruk di tengah masyarakat. (Hal.17)

Torah is an essence unto itself and everything in it is independent of the world.

Thus it is written in the Talmud: "He who translates a passage as it seems to be, is a deceiver.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The great mass of people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.