Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tertullian

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Leo Buscaglia

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Lawrence M. Krauss

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

Karl Popper

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

Karl Popper

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

Joseph Goebbels

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

Jules Renard

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Josh Billings

Truth is the edict of God.

Karl G. Maeser

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Karl Barth

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

Karl Kraus

The real truths are those that can be invented.

Karl Kraus

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Karl Kraus

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Karl Kraus

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Karl Lagerfeld

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Otto von Bismarck

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Otto von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Kami Garcia

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Paul Tillich

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Paul Krugman

as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Paul Lowe

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep truth is imageless.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

Paul Valery

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

George MacDonald

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

George MacDonald

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

George MacDonald

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Emily Post

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Emanuel Swedenborg

What is true is true, and what is false is false...