Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Booker T. Washington

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Aristotle

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Elizabeth Bowen

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Chuck Klosterman

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Simon Sinek

All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.

John Piper

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

Peggy Noonan

Let's cause some senators distress.

Nigel Worthington

Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.