Truth Is Tough

Simple Yet True

Published on January 3, 2008 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Writing

I love this. Just read it today.

"Truth is tough."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., poet, 1858

ain't that the truth?

Comments

on Jan 03, 2008

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

-Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991

KFC Kickin For Christ

on Jan 04, 2008

"Truth is such a rare thing, it's delightful to tell it."

Emily Dickinson-

"Truth is heavy, few therefore can bear it"

Hebrew Proverb-

"The Truth is always the strongest argument"

Greek Proverb-

RoyLevosh

on Jan 04, 2008

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

-John Adams, Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, December 1770

KFC Kickin For Christ

on Jan 04, 2008

Good one Roy. I like it. Here's another.

"When in doubt, tell the truth"

Mark Twain-

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

Winston Churchill-

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