Famous Quotes & Sayings

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

e. e. cummings

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

E. B. White

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Douglas Hofstadter

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adolf Hitler

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Adolf Hitler

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

The truth is the best propaganda.

Adolf Hitler

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Adolf Hitler

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

Adolf Hitler

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Ally Carter

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Allen Tate

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Alison Lurie

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Aleister Crowley

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Chuck Palahniuk

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Chuck Palahniuk

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Christopher Morley

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Christopher Morley

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Christopher Morley

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Anthony de Mello

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

Clarence Darrow

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Daniel Dennett

The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

David Mamet

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

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.