Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

Henry Ward Beecher

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Henry Ward Beecher

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Helena Christensen

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Helen Thomas

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let there be truth between us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must keep repeating the Truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

Gustave Flaubert

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

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.

William Shakespeare

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

Dogen

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?