Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred de Vigny

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

Alfred Adler

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alexis Carrel

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

Alexandre Dumas

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Elbert Hubbard

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Elbert Hubbard

Live truth instead of professing it.

Edward Abbey

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Aristotle

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

Aristotle

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Aristotle

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Aristotle

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Ben Kingsley

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Ben Jonson

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.

Elizabeth Bowen

... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

Michael Vick

No, I ain't mad. He didn't do anything wrong. The world will all know when the truth comes out.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.