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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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The Truth

 A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way. 
Anonymous
 A little doubt is better than total credulity. 
Al-Ma'arri (973-1057)
 A reasonable probability is the only certainty. 
E.W. Howe (1853-1937)
 All great truths begin as blasphemies. 
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
 An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. 
Der Aphorismus deckt sich nie mit der Wahrheit; er ist entweder eine halbe Wahrheit oder anderthalb.
Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
 Art is a lie which shows us the truth. 
El arte es una mentira que nos hace comprender la verdad.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
 Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. 
Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.
André Gide (1869-1951)
 For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use. 
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)
 He said true things, but called them by the wrong names. 
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
 How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us? 
Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
 I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. 
Anonymous
 If history is written by the victors, legend is at the service of the vanquished. 
Steve Roud (1949- )
 If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. 
Molière (1622-1673)
 It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. 
Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
 Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth. 
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
 Man will occasionally stumble over the truth. Invariably, he will pick himself up and carry on. 
Anonymous
 That is not only not right; it is not even wrong. 
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)
 The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. 
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
 The plural of anecdote is not data. 
Anonymous
 The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. 
Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
 The truth is the best lie. 
Anonymous
 Truth and credibility are usually incompatible. 
Anonymous
 Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. 
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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