“If we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost.”
Jeff Flake (1962) American politician
Speech in the U.S. Senate (2018)
101 East- Inside Indonesia's Islamic schools, 2007-08-23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMMKBSTiyA,
“If we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost.”
Jeff Flake (1962) American politician
Speech in the U.S. Senate (2018)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"The Modern Gradus ad Parnassum," London Weekly Review (17 May 1828), reprinted in New Writings by William Hazlitt (1925), edited by P. P. Howe
“Falsehoods which we spurn to-day
Were the truths of long ago.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Calef in Boston, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[1991Nov13.194420.28091@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
As quoted in the American Federation of Labor Bulletin, Vol. 8, Issues 11-18 (1926), p. 69
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Remarks by el-Sisi during celebrating the night of El-Kadr on 25 July 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6d_ln9MQHk. <br class="br">2014
“Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth.”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
As translated in 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom (2006) by David Ross, p. 36
Context: Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth. Truth and falsehood are two sides of the same coin. Neither accept one nor reject the other.