Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Alexander Pope

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

E. Howard Hunt

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. P. Thompson

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

Donald Sutherland

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Dylan Thomas

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Claude Bernard

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Dalai Lama

On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

Dalai Lama

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

Dolly Parton

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

Diogenes

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

Dick Morris

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

Andre Gide

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Andre Gide

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

Andre Gide

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

Andre Gide

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

Andre Gide

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Andre Gide

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Aneurin Bevan

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Anais Nin

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Anais Nin

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

Anais Nin

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

Anais Nin

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite.

Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anne Hathaway

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Ann Aguirre

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.