Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Brown

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Confucius

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

Confucius

The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Confucius

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Daniel Webster

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Dalton Trumbo

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

David Bohm

The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion)...

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

John Milton

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

Kurt Vonnegut

. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Cassandra Clare

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Kevin Costner

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Nick Hornby

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Nawal El Saadawi

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Nawal El Saadawi

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Any truth creates a scandal.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Isak Dinesen

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Iris Murdoch

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Ida Tarbell

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Gloria Steinem

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Giordano Bruno

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Giordano Bruno

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.