The
trouble with lying and deceiving is that their
efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of
the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in
public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all
falsehoods.
-- Hannah Arendt
1906-1975,
German-born American Political Philosopher
Plato
is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek
Philosopher
The
least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied
later a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek
Philosopher
A
thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered,
nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born
Bishop of Hippo, Theologian