#rut

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#had #i #i think #people #really

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. ↗

— Caroline Nichols Churchill

#brutal #divine #drink #had #less

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America. ↗

— Ron Dellums

#dying #entire #entire generation #generation #killing

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#define #dissension #everyone #starts #truth

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#contemplation #day #days #fatal #human

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. ↗

— Patrick Murray

#case #even #lawyer #sometimes #tell

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#also #barbarism #being #brutalized #characterized

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

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