Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Frank Knight

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

George Herbert

All truths are not to be told.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Christian Bale

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Chris Hillman

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

Franz Grillparzer

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Jeanette Winterson

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Jean-Paul Sartre

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Georges Bernanos

Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.

Georges Braque

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

Georges Braque

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

George Saunders

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Jeremy Collier

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.