truth

"Tom Lehrer's earliest recordings at Harvard 1951/52"

"It is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lie and find a truth."

"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell yo…"

"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."

"Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable."

"I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men."

"I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits."

"...with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice."

"Darwin himself told us in his last book that we should never underestimate the power of worms on the move. ...The inversion of a humble worm, especially when disturbed, may bring down empires. Shakesp…"

"“This is the reason why we are not satisfied with a small or a big partial reform, because we want a total change. And if we do our utmost to use pure means and to maintain an honest and loving consci…"

"There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin."

"Foreign debt and inflation have nothing to do with my decision. Indeed, I can assure you that not going to alleviate inflation or debt. It is true that the Falklands have served to unite Argentines. B…"

"If I use the name 'Hesperus' to refer to a certain planetary body when seen in a certain celestial position in the evening, it will not therefore be a necessary truth that Hesperus is ever seen in the…"

"He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward."

"To the mind carefully brought to adulthood in the United States, the truths of anticommunism are self-evident, as self-evident as the flatness of the world once was to an earlier mind..."

"Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce … That would be sad. If two people were married and they were really and they ju…"

"To be honest, you must know yourself well. And that involves integrity — which is honesty's twin asset. Integrity is knowing yourself well enough to be able to mean what you say."

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

"There’s more leg room in first class, to be sure, but there’s more poetry in second class—and more honesty in third."

"Flaubert poses as the outsider with insider information who excoriates a reality as degraded and mendacious. It is as if the literary standing of the author in the world of imagination and fiction par…"