Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Emile Hirsch

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

Emilie Autumn

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Emile Zola

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Epictetus

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Epictetus

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

Epictetus

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Emily Dickinson

Truth - is as old as God - ...

Thomas Huxley

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.