Monday 21 March 2011

communication is a virus

communication is a virus

  • Truth and lie quotes.


  • "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (creator of all things) but through Me." Jesus, the Messiah speaking in the Christian Bible. John 14:6

  • The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.

  • As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ---Josh Billings

  • Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. --Theodore Parker

  • The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church. --Robert Farrar Capon

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

  • To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell

  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-- Galileo Galilei

  • We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. --Chip Brogden

  • There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. --Agnes Repplier

  • Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  • Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.-- John Gilmore

  • Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.--Rene Theophile Hyacinthe LaÎnnec

  • The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. --Jim Davis

  • The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide.--Michael Rivero

  • From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us!—Unknown

  • The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. --Albert Einstein

  • God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. --Thoreau

  • Peace if possible, truth at all costs.-- Martin Luther

  • In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. --Gary Amirault

  • One truth out of context can prove very dangerous. –Gregory Phillips

  • The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. -- Michael Rivero

  • To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead. --Gary Amirault

  • Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.--Chuck Swindoll

  • In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell

  • Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. Wilhelm Stekel

  • Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.--Sydney J. Harris

  • The ability to lie is a liability.--Unknown

  • Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.--George MacDonald

  • When in doubt, tell the truth. --Mark Twain

  • Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.--Mark Twain

  • It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. --CS Lewis

  • "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger

  • Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. -- Vincent de Paul

  • The folks who know the truth aren't talking…. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up! --Tom Waits

  • If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. --Stopford Brooke
  • First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along. --Alexander Humbold
  • All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer

  • A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical. --Soren Kierkegaard

  • Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses--Norman Grubb

  • The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen Hawking

  • Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. --Rev. Denny Brake

  • He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. --Tryon Edwards

  • There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so. --Soren Kierkegaard

  • Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. --Karl Barth

  • When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. --Unknown

  • The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen Hawking

  • Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray. --Henry Ward Beecher

  • The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.--Niels Bohr

  • The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. --William James

  • I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Jeff Melvoin

  • All generalizations, including this one, are false. --Mark Twain

  • The highest truth cannot be put into words. - Lao tzu.

  • The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world. -- Robert G. Ingersoll - (1833-1899) American political leader, orator

  • The truth was obscure, too plain and too pure. To live it you had to explode.—Bob Dylan

  • The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.--Chuck Colson

  • Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.-- Martin Luther King Jr.

  • To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. –Bronson Alcott

  • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.-- Goethe

  • In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.– Rene Descartes-Rules

  • When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.-- Dresden James

  • It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.— Adrian Rodgers

  • A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. F.W. Farrar

  • The way of discovery still lies open to us in divine things if we have the moral courage and the desire to go to the fountain head of truth, instead of filling our vessels out of this doctor’s compendium... or be held spellbound by the shadow of a few great names.-- Rev. J. B. Herd

  • Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. –Unknown

  • Our first decision about Truth is based upon Who Jesus is. With that question settled many Christians are content, but Truth is living. Truth will continue to reveal Himself to us and around us for as long as we will allow it.—Chip Brogden

  • ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.--Blaise Pascal

  • The thought that provokes thought is much more valuable than the thought that is only an echo of an accepted truth. - Thomas W. Hanford

  • To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free. —Michael Servetus

  • Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. --Blaise Pascal

  • A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.--Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act. –George MacDonald

  • The one who buries the Truth in the ground for safekeeping will lose it, while the one who does something with the Truth will receive more Truth. This is why some grow spiritually and some do not. --Chip Brogden

  • When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier. --Gandhi

  • A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. --Thomas Brooks

  • We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.-- Blaise Pascal

  • It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. -- Adrian Rodgers

  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.-- Martin Luther King


  • “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” Josh Billings


  • “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” Edward R. Murrow


  • “Beat me with the truth, don’t torture me with lies.” Author unknown


  • “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Lenin (1870-1924)


  • “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” Stephen King


  • “It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” Henry Kissinger


  • “A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658), 


  • “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” Adolf Hitler


  • "All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw


  • Wisdom is found only in truth.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


  • The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
  • Hermann Hesse


  • The words of truth are always paradoxical.
  • Lao Tzu


  • The truth needs so little rehearsal.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


  • Truth fears no questions.  ~Unknown 


  • A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.  ~Terri Guillemets
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communication is a virus

SPOTTING FALSE ADS


1. Consider the source. Many newspapers, magazines and news web sites (including this one) write occasional reviews of products that seem pertinent for our readers. MoneyWatch, for example, has reviewed immediate annuities and money management web sites, among other things. The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg, regularly reviews technology products. And, of course, Consumer Reports rates everything from refrigerators to tires.
You may disagree with the writers’ opinions, but staff-written reviews at legitimate news sites at least are not influenced by payments from advertisers. (Beware sections titled “Advertising supplement.” Advertising supplements are paid advertisements, not editorial content.)
Independent bloggers, on the other hand, are often paid to write positive reviews. This practice is so wide-spread, in fact, that eHow even has a series of stories about how much bloggers can expect to earn and whether you should disclose that you’re being paid to blog.
If you’re not sure about the legitimacy of a review, look for the reviewers criteria. A news site will tell you how they made the judgments, which allows you to evaluate the legitimacy of the review.
2. User-Generated Content. A review is separate from the comments that follow it. Although most news sites encourage readers to post comments, these comments are typically only deleted if they’re abusive or obvious product shills. We may suspect there’s faking going on, but won’t act unless it’s obvious or verifiable. One example: On a recent post I wrote about buying cell phones for seniors, we got 20 comments in just a couple of days on a post that, frankly, wasn’t that well-read. Almost all the comments favored one manufacturer. Are people really that enthused about TracFone? Color me skeptical.
3. Look for links and product-speak. Another tell-tale sign that a reviewer isn’t legitimate is when they’re too detailed, says Lindeman. Real people talk and write like your friends, saying things like:
  • “love the cup holders”
  • “delivered damaged and company didn’t give a damn”
  • “gorgeous hotel; cozy beds”
  • “Ewww…bed bugs.”
Do your friends chirp out the full product name, model number and price? Do they provide a link to where you can buy the product? Are you an engineer? Then, probably not.
If a review has too much detail, consider it a red flag. People, who aren’t getting paid, don’t talk like that.
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