Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Peter Tosh

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Terry Pratchett

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Terry Pratchett

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

Terry Pratchett

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Goodkind

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Tennessee Williams

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the summit of being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Scarlett Johansson

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

Shunryu Suzuki

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Shirley Chisholm

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Lawrence Durrell

Truth disappears with the telling of it.