Common Quote by Melina Marchetta

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

— Winston Churchill

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing…

— H. L. Mencken

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

— Anonymous

Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

— Winston Churchill

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

— Anatole France

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will…

— Jonathan Swift

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened

— Hussein Nishah

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

— Boris Pasternak

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even…

— H. L. Mencken