Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

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.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

Rumi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Roy H. Williams

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Thomas Wilson

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Colleen McCullough

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

Colleen McCullough

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Dick Gregory

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Desmond Tutu

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Desmond Tutu

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Desmond Tutu

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

Desmond Tutu

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

Desmond Tutu

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Dax Shepard

If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it’s like, ‘Well, of course he did.’ With me, it should be, ‘Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I’ll get me a Kristen Bell.’ But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.

Cassandra Clare

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?

Jean-Paul Sartre

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

Franz Kafka

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Eric Clapton

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

Emma Forrest

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

Elvis Costello

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

Jason Terry

You've got to love the game and the game will love you back.

Harriet Van Horne

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

Jack Kornfield

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.