The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

21.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

24.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

25.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

26.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

30.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

31.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

32.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

33.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

34.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

35.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

36.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

37.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

38.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

41.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

42.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

43.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.