“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.” WantBelieveLittlesSoulReasonFeelingsCareLawWishBornRaceVirtueTruth IsProtectionReason WhyChampionHonorableVulgarPettyKnightsAntidoteTransactionsDecadenceLamentDegradingRace CarDay LifeProbity Author:Frances Trollope
“There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.” PeopleWorldHumansImportantReasonFactsDifferencesDealsAirTruth IsMethodReason WhyElusiveBlah Author:Maya Angelou
“The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.” ReasonFictionTruth IsStrangerReason WhyConsistentRequirementsStranger Than Fiction Author:Mark Twain
“The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.” MadeReasonEffortQualityProduceTruth IsHighestGenuineReason WhySteelAutomobileForged Author:Charles M. Schwab