Figures Quote by Jonathan Swift

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man…

— Charles Mackay

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man…

— Mark Twain

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a…

— William Thomas Green Morton

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

— Blaise Pascal

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the…

— John Calvin

“A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost…

— Lloyd C. Douglas

“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows,…

— Anonymous

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense…

— Paulo Coelho

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

— Anthony Trollope

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The…

— Horace Mann

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

— Gustave Flaubert