#ruth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#scaffold #throne #truth #wrong

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#death #delightful #fevers #light #night

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#conflict #decide #every #evil #falsehood

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#important #important thing #me #most #paycheck

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#dry #emotionally #even #inaccurate #more

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#committee #could #eye #hired #look

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#before #had #inquiries #inquiry #jurist

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth. ↗

— John Major

#eye #looked #many #me #people

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#africa #anything #apartheid #becomes #come

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#everybody #fell #god #greatest #had