#rut

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cold #continual #fear #lest #love

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

… on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité. ↗

— Voltaire

#life #truth #death

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#falsehood #fears #hopes #influenced #judgment

It feels so good to tell the truth. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#good #tell #truth

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#blame #does #should #telling #telling the truth

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#error #finger #gets #her #locomotive

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#deep #into #ourselves #over #ruts

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#come #corruption #country #employee #government