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.

George Will

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

George Will

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Freeman Dyson

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Eric Zorn

Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

Erich Fromm

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

Erica Jong

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

Erica Jong

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Eric Butterworth

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.