Action Quote by Aphra Behn

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger…

— Thomas Hobbes

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of…

— Anonymous

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

— Lydia M. Child

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

— Wendell Phillips

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

— R. D. Laing

If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions…

— Amanda de Cadenet

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that…

— John Adams

Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will…

— charles Bukowski

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not…

— Petrarch

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to…

— Oscar Wilde

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without…

— Mercy Otis Warren