Category Archives: truth
Today’s Quote – 2007.11.22
“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
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Today’s Quote – 2007.09.07
“I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve (the human condition) than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general mistrust.”
—Albert Einstein
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Hat-tip to: Good Morning World
Today’s Quote – 2007.07.29
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
—Martin Luther King
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Today’s Quote – 2007.07.18
“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us — and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.”
—Carl Sagan
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Today’s Quote – 2007.07.17
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge — even to ourselves — that we’ve been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles.”
—Carl Sagan
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Today’s Quote – 2007.07.10
“Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.”
—Dalai Lama
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Today’s Quote – 2007.05.22
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” —Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917
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Today’s Quote – 2007.04.30
“It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
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Today’s Quote – 2007.03.11
“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it’s powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels
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