Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Corelli

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

Marie Corelli

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Marie Curie

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Teri Garr

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

Johnny Isakson

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

John Woolman

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

John Ruskin

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

John Milton

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

John Milton

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

John Milton

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

John Milton

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

John Milton

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

John Milton

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

John Milton

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

John Milton

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

Norman Douglas

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Neil Kinnock

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

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.