#ruth

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#know #lies #means #people #truth

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#monkey #science #truth #zoo #experience

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#power #sufficient #sufficient evidence #truth

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #compassionate #conservatives #express

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#another #casualty #love #must #sake

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#fortunately #interpreter #often #soul #still

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear. ↗

— Aaron Brown

#truth #want #wants