Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Felix Frankfurter

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

Fanny Kemble

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Francis Parker Yockey

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Francis Bacon

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Francis Bacon

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

Frances Wright

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Frances Wright

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Frances Wright

Truth is but approved facts.

George Washington

At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.

George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

George Washington

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

George Santayana

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

George Santayana

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.