" There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. "

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962 US movie actress (1908 – 1989)

" Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. "

Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939 US dramatist (1905 – 1984)

" A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. "

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful. Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

" Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. "

Aldous Huxley English critic & novelist (1894 – 1963)

" We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. "

Jeremy Collier

" A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth. "

Cuban Proverb

" In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. "

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

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