#truth

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

#better #get #i #i can #ideas

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#feel #intently #listening #people #safer

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#budget #every #everyone #fail #federal

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#absolute truth #although #because #definitively #help

Truth is life's most precious commodity. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#life #most #precious #truth #truth is

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off! ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#am #anyone #because #calls #career

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#illusion #losing #makes #than #truth