“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Truth
Evan Esar on Conscience
“Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.” Continue reading
Lillian Hellman on Cynicism
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.” Continue reading
Laurens Van Der Post on Humanity
“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” Continue reading
Carl Sagan on Science
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.” Continue reading
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Science
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Continue reading
Albert Guinon on Truth
“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong – or absolutely right.” Continue reading
Flannery O’Connor on Truth
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Continue reading
Bertrand Russell on Controversies
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” Continue reading
W. Somerset Maugham on Criticism
“People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.” Continue reading
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