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.

John Stuart Mill

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Woolman

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Mark Twain

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Michael Vick

No, I ain't mad. He didn't do anything wrong. The world will all know when the truth comes out.

Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Jeremy Collier

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

Saint Augustine

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Walter Lippmann

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

George Armstrong Custer

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Henry Adams

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

The truth is we're being selfish. We're getting more out of this than they are.

The truth is the truth, and it doesn't change.

Kent Conrad

The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.

The truth is that these are not unusual.

Peter Capaldi

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

The truth is, it happened...just like she told all those people.