Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scott

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

Truth has not such an urgent air.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Niels Bohr

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Nicole Krauss

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Nicole Kidman

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Nicole Kidman

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

Oscar Wilde

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Madonna Ciccone

Truth is never far behind.

Lydia M. Child

Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!

Lucretia Mott

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Lucretia Mott

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Louis Kronenberger

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michael Jackson

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

Michel de Montaigne

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel de Montaigne

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Michael Novak

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

Michael Kimmelman

It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

Markus Zusak

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.