Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Daymond John

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

David Hume

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

David Hume

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

William Shakespeare

But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.

William Shakespeare

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

Bill O'Reilly

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

Benjamin Jowett

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charlotte Lennox

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Bill Maher

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

Bill Maher

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

C. P. Scott

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Edward Snowden

Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.

Edgar Degas

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Arthur Eddington

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Bob Newhart

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Lykke Li

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

Michael Leunig

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

THINGS are not so important; the transcendental truth of things is of value.

The Wine of Truth is not fermented from molasses.

Joshua Bell

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.