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Quotations by Subject: Truth (43 quotes)

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I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.: Stephen Wolfram
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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 Stefanss
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.: Stephen King (1947 - ), Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle.: Robert W. Shaunon
All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Church's Undecidability Theorem, Turing's Halting Problem, Turski's Truth Theorem-- all have the flavour of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that "To seek self- knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.": Douglas R. Hofstadter
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)

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