Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Asimov

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Hugh Jackman

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Horace Walpole

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Mann

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

Horace Mann

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Horace Mann

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

Esther Hicks

Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Erwin Chargaff

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Flora Lewis

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Flannery O'Connor

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Flannery O'Connor

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Ferran Adria

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Jeffrey Sachs

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

Jeff Gannon

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Jean Giraudoux

There are truths which can kill a nation.

James A. Baldwin

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Gao Xingjian

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Frank O'Hara

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

George C. Scott

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

George Eliot

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.