#ruth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #men #most #nothing

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#attended #bodyguard #lies #precious #she

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#longing #minds #nature #our #planted

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beings #come #creator #even #fire

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#another #falls #life #looking #part

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#evil #false #gossip #lot #needn

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. ↗

— James Clavell

#important #important work #most #search #the most important

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#made #often #scoundrels #time #traitor

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

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