Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Robert Fulghum

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Robert Frost

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Rene Descartes

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Thornton Wilder

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thomas Paine

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Orison Swett Marden

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Orison Swett Marden

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Novalis

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Emily Bronte

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Lemuel K. Washburn

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Nelson Mandela

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

Neil Strauss

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Neil Strauss

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

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.

Alfred Korzybski

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Alfred Korzybski

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alexander Alekhine

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Aldo Leopold

In wildness is the salvation of the world,