Longevity

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. - Will Rogers


Critic's diatribes rarely become classics.

Skeptical Proof

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step towards truth. It must be applied generally because it is the touchstone. - Denis Diderot


All how have accepted some conspiracy theory or another should read and understand this.

Cruel Truth

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. - Edward Abbey

Judging Truthfulness

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. - John Locke

..... You often hear there is no absolute truth. Must be a "little knowing" individual speaking.

Truth In; Truth Out

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. - Samuel Johnson


Otherwise it's just GIGO.

Truth Is Eternal

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. - Madeleine L'Engle


Not only is truth eternal, it is universal.

Untruthful Actions

Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells


Beware not only of disingenuous words, but deeds as well.

Newton Paraphrased

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke

Beware of so-called experts.

Enemy of The Truth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy


Belief in myth is accomplished with faith.

Running Lies

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. - Lyman Beecher

Some things are better left alone.

Ignoring Reality

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. - Ayn Rand

Having your head in the sand doesn't protect you from the lion.

Enemy of Truth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy


Was he really a Catholic?

Errors Exposed

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. - H. L. Mencken

Similarly the exposure of a fault does not ensure perfection.

Truth Is Truth

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone

Truth is the truth no matter what planet you are on.

Fiction vs. Truth

Men would rather believe than know. - E. O. Wilson


Words are often more influential than truth.

False Concept

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. - E. O. Wilson


Just because someone said it does not make it true.

Multiple Truths

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' - Kahlil Gibran


Each subject may have multiple truths, though they are never contradictory. 

Tough Truth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes


Tough but precious.

Poetic Life

Poetry is not the assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. - T.S. Eliot


As one can instantly tell the difference between oil on canvas and art; pottery and sculpture; words on paper and poetry: One can tell the difference between life lived and living life.

Half Truths

A half truth is a whole lie. - Yiddish Proverb


Think Al Gore.