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Tag Tag Truth
We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Roscoe · 1820

Quotes

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

George Orwell · Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 · Primary source

“Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.”

Ayn Rand · Atlas Shrugged, 1957 · Primary source

“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.”

William Blake · Auguries of Innocence, 1803 · Primary source

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”

Albert Einstein · Ideas and Opinions , 1954 · Primary source

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

Ayn Rand · Atlas Shrugged, 1957 · Primary source

“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Half the truth is often a great lie.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“There’s actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre.”

Steve Jobs · Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs, 1995 · Primary source

“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

“Truth is our element of life, yet if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth, and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself, but falsehood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Intellect, 1841 · Primary source

“Observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.”

Richard Feynman · The Meaning of It All, 1998 · Primary source

“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”

Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War, 431 BC · Primary source

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