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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. -- Isaiah Berlin
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. -- Henry George
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. -- Max Frisch
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. -- Virginia Woolf
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation. -- Giordano Bruno
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. -- Henry A. Wallace
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information. -- Bill Keller
As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail. -- Adam Clarke
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law. -- William Pepper
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. -- Jef I. Richards
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can't protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets. They can protect you against run-of-the-mill malware: banking trojans, keystroke loggers and e-mail worms. But targeted attacks like these go to great lengths to avoid antivirus products on purpose. -- Mikko Hypponen
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. -- Linda Chavez
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. -- Wendell Berry
Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure. -- William Shakespeare
The truth is helpless when up against perception -- Zack W. Van
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander -- Abraham Lincoln
The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth. -- Pope Leo I
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. -- Thomas Huxley
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel. -- Tucker Max
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. -- Vaclav Havel
I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth. -- Elie Wiesel
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. -- Robert Nozick
influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. -- Harriet Martineau
Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills. -- Pharoahe Monch
History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. -- Elizabeth Haydon
But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. -- George MacDonald
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. -- Rajneesh
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. -- James A. Garfield
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. -- Sengcan
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth. -- Martha Beck
A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth. -- Edward de Bono
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. -- Isaac Asimov
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. -- Diane Setterfield
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. -- Michel Foucault
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. -- Augusten Burroughs
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. -- Walter Savage Landor
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. -- Novalis
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. -- Charley Reese
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. -- Robert Jordan
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. -- Henrik Ibsen
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -- Malcolm X
The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. -- Karl Barth
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. -- Charles George Gordon
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency. -- Bryant McGill
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. -- Michael Parenti
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. -- John Knox
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. -- Ban Ki-moon
The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. -- M.C. Halliday
Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people. -- Roy Hattersley
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. -- Khaled Hosseini
Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation. -- Isocrates
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth. -- David Jeremiah
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it. -- John of Kronstadt
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. -- E.W. Jackson
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth. -- John Milton
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution. -- Noah Levine
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself. -- Charles Spurgeon
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. -- Glenn Beck
Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth. -- Mooji
It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil. -- James Robison
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her. -- Jacques Maritain
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind. -- Sengcan
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end. -- Swami Vivekananda
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. -- Johann Arndt
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth -- Edmund Burke
The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated. -- David Bentley
I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry. -- Charles Simic
Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love? -- Lauryn Hill
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran. -- Rick Riordan
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts. -- Patrick Henry
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. -- Novalis
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself? -- Michel de Montaigne
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary. -- Walter Savage Landor

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