Truths

Each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.

If it were not for books, each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .

Our eyes, our ears, our sense of smell, our taste create as many truths as there are men on earth.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him.

Not all truths should be spoken.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Frequently repeated elaborate lies that seem too out there to be true, still triumph over vastly simpler and more intuitive truths.