Logo
Quote by Thomas Mann
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. - Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. – Thomas Mann

Other quotes by Thomas Mann

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann

Category:
Time
Author
Thomas Mann
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Truth
category

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Category:
Truth

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

Category:
Truth

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truths sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Category:
Truth

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. – Michel de Montaigne

Category:
Truth

Random Quotes

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? – Plato

Category:
Death

So Bush certainly wasnt the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And hes created a lot of disincentive. Hes created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. Its almost impossible to get anything done in the country. – Donald Trump

Category:
great

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry

Harmony seldom makes a headline. – Silas Bent

Category:
Media