Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Chuck Palahniuk

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Christopher Morley

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Christopher Morley

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Christopher Morley

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Douglas Adams

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

Dorothea Dix

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Dorothy Allison

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

Doris Lessing

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Donna Tartt

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

Dale Carnegie

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Claud Cockburn

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

e. e. cummings

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

E. B. White

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Douglas Hofstadter

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Donald Trump

The truth is, the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants or however many there may be - and honestly we've been hearing that number for years. It's always 11 million. Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million. It could be 30 million. They have no idea what the number is.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Anthony de Mello

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

Anne Sexton

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anita Brookner

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Ambrose Bierce

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Ambrose Bierce

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

Ambrose Bierce

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Ambrose Bierce

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Ambrose Bierce

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.