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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Canadian explorer & ethnologist (1879 - 1962)

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen
Irish novelist & short story author (1899 - 1973)

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Elizabeth Jenkins

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson
US journalist (1939 - 2005)

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual"

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

Plato, Symposium
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
US movie actress (1908 - 1989)

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton
English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
US suffragist (1815 - 1902)

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063

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