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.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Patrick Henry

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Pat Cooper

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Julia Roberts

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Daniel J. Boorstin

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

D. A. Carson

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

D. H. Lawrence

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

Conor Oberst

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Conor Oberst

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Daniel Defoe

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Masanobu Fukuoka

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

Marya Mannes

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

Martha Beck

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

Marshall McLuhan

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Pablo Picasso

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Terence McKenna

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe