Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Bobby Vinton

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Franklin Graham

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

Don Lemon

The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

Sathya Baba

Its is Truth and Truth alone, that is one's real friend, relative.

I told them the truth and they thought it was a movie. Go figure. I'm just doing my job.

I just want the truth told, you know, really what happened.

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Arlen Specter

I want to know what the truth is,

I want to know the truth. The truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

The truth should not offend, it should only inconvenience.

Kevin Connolly

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Dan Simmons

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

Cynthia Ozick

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

Cyril Connolly

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Cornel West

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Cormac McCarthy

The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

Cormac McCarthy

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

E. W. Howe

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

Joel Salatin

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Amy Bloom

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

David Hare

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hawkins

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.