Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Parker

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Theodore Parker

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Theodore Roosevelt

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

Theodor Adorno

The whole is the false.

Terry Pratchett

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Margaret Fuller

Truth is the first of jewels.

Kin Hubbard

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Max Muller

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

Maya Angelou

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Matthew Arnold

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

Matthew Arnold

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Matthew Arnold

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Maxim Gorky

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Maxim Gorky

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Max Weber

The Truth is the Truth.

Pablo Casals

Say things to the world that are true.

Plautus

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

Plato

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Plato

God is truth and light his shadow.

Plato

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Plato

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Plato

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

Paula Fox

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Paula Fox

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

Paula Cole

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

Phil McGraw

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Phil McGraw

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.