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- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
- Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
- Solomon Short
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- Lenin (1870 - 1924)
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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