Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Albert Einstein

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.

Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Alfred Korzybski

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

Aldous Huxley

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Albert Einstein

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Alexander Haig

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

Alexander Pope

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Alexander Pope

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

E. Howard Hunt

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. P. Thompson

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

Donald Sutherland

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Dylan Thomas

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Claude Bernard

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Dalai Lama

On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.