Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

A. E. van Vogt

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Adrienne Rich

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Agatha Christie

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Lindsay Price

The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.

Ludwig von Mises

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.

Ludwig von Mises

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Peter Capaldi

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

I think that there's things that are unknown, and the truth has to come out.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

Anton LaVey

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Alice Miller

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

Alice Miller

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

Anne Lamott

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

Albert Camus

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

Albert Camus

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Albert Camus

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Daniel Kahneman

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

D. H. Lawrence

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

D. H. Lawrence

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!