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.

Julia Roberts

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Joseph Joubert

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Ken Wilber

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Andy Stanley

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

Thomas Sowell

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Thomas Sowell

Reality is not optional.

Thomas Sowell

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Robert Musil

And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.

Robert Musil

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Robert Musil

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.