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.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Ken Wilber

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Mark Twain

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Jack Malvey

The statement will not tell the final story. I believe the Fed finale really is data dependent.

Patti Davis

I speak for many others when I say that none of us believe a cure is just around the corner. We believe it's around a very wide bend.

Azizah Ismail

I sometimes think about Mahatma Gandhi: when he was arrested...the movement continued. That is what I think I'm seeing now. And I believe that the reform movement is in the hearts of the people.

Chris Rich

I sincerely believe that this is the last chance to keep this island community, older than the nation itself, from slipping away into history.

Gisele Bundchen

I've been waiting, like, a quarter of century to be a quarter of a century, can you believe it?

Moira Kelly

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

Ron Miller

I've come up there and have seen her scrubbing the floors. She's such a dynamic person, it's hard to believe she's that age.

Tammy Baldwin

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Mark DeAugustino

I've been holding the reins, and when I (let go), I do believe they're going to go after it. I think they'll really respond, and when they respond, the sky's the limit.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Doris Lessing

What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

Dale Carnegie

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

Clara Barton

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.