Quotes About Truth

They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?… Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Bisa saja anda sering membohongi orang, bahkan sebagian orang selalu bisa anda bohongi, tetapi anda tidak bisa selalu membohongi semua orang.

Why should there be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgement of this great tribunal of the American people.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

On peut tromper une partie du peuple tout le temps et tout le peuple une partie du temps, mais on ne peut pas tromper tout le peuple tout le temps.

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

Hãy quy?t tâm s?ng chân th?t trong m?i sá»±; n?u b?n th?y mình không th? tr? thành má»™t lu?t sÆ° trung thá»±c, thì hãy c? s?ng trung thá»±c mà không c?n ph?i làm lu?t sÆ°.

Don't believe everything you see on the internet

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Ningún hombre tiene memoria suficiente para ser un mentiroso exitoso (Abraham Lincoln)

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

People named Jon tend to be highly susceptible to false information online and tend to believe whatever already lines up with their worldview.

The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.

Among the books there were also some containing bombast. They didn't try to portray Nature as it is within and outside of man; rather, they tried to make it more beautiful, seeking to elicit certain effects. I turned away from them. If reality isn't sacred to them, how are they capable of creating something more beautiful than God's Creation?

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

The standard of emancipation is now unfurled . . . I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch: And I will be heard, Posterity will bear testimony that I was right.

to speak, as Leopold's officials did, of forced laborers as libérés, or "liberated men," was to use language as perverted as that above the gate at Auschwitz, Arbeit Macht Frei.

history, when examined closely, always yields up people, events, and moral testing grounds more revealing than any but the greatest of novelists could invent.

today's Namibia. The killing there was masked by no smokescreen of talk about philanthropy. It was genocide, pure and simple, starkly announced in advance.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.