„A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
„He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.“
"Lettre du Provincial" (21 December 1899)
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
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französischer Schriftsteller 1873 - 1914Ähnliche Zitate
„He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.“
— Julius Streicher German politician 1885 - 1946
Alternate version: He who knows the truth and does not speak it truly is a miserable creature.
Quoted in "Julius Streicher" - Page 211 - By Randall L. Bytwerk
— Novalis German poet and writer 1772 - 1801
Novalis (1829)
Kontext: Man consists in Truth. If he exposes Truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays Truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against Conviction.
— Alphonse Daudet, buch Tartarin of Tarascon
L'homme du Midi ne ment pas, il se trompe. Il ne dit pas toujours la vérité, mais il croit la dire.
Quelle: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.
„2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.“
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— Vince Cable British Liberal Democrat politician 1943
Boris Johnson insists he is 'all behind' May over Brexit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41289080 BBC News (16 September 2017)
2017
„Liars … when they speak the truth they are not believed.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 v.Chr
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
— Giacomo Casanova Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725 - 1798
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
— Wilhelm Reich, buch Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Kontext: My intellect tells me: "Tell the truth at any cost." The Little Man in me says: "It is stupid to expose oneself to the little man, to put oneself at his mercy. The Little Man does not want to hear the truth about himself. He does not want the great responsibility which is his. He wants to remain a Little Man. He wants to remain a Little Man, or wants to become a little great man. He wants to become rich, or a party leader, or commander of a legion, or secretary of the society for the abolition of vice. But he does not want to assume responsibility for his work..."
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
Letter to Allen N. Ford (11 August 1846), reported in Roy Prentice Basler, ed., Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (1990 [1946])
1840s
— Ingmar Bergman Swedish filmmaker 1918 - 2007
On his plans for his autobiography Laterna Magica, as quoted in "Who is he really?" http://www.ingmarbergman.se/universe.asp?guid=4F72F9D3-43BB-405D-B42B-3D091B8FAF3A
Quelle: The Magic Lantern
„A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.“
— Tom Bissell American journalist 1974
— Gerhard Dorn alchemist, bibliophile, philosopher, physician, translator 1530 - 1584
Theatrum Chemicum Volume 1 phil. med.
„The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.“
— Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975
„There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.“
— Jane Yolen American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939
Quelle: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
„No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.“
— Sara Shepard Author 1973
Quelle: Heartless
