Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serj Tankian

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

Susan Howatch

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

Robert Browning

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves.

Robert Browning

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

Ravi Zacharias

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Randy Quaid

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

Tom Cruise

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Sissela Bok

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Rajneesh

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

Sojourner Truth

Truth burns up error.

Sojourner Truth

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Sojourner Truth

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Socrates

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Michael Servetus

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Michael Shermer

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Michael Scott

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

John Milton

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

John Milton

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

John Milton

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

John Milton

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

John Milton

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

John Milton

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

John Milton

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

John Milton

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

Norman Douglas

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Neil Kinnock

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.