Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

Mason Cooley

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

Mencius

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Michel Foucault

Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

Oscar Wilde

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Oscar Wilde

Truth is independent of facts always.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Twain

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Mark Twain

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Mark Twain

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Mark Twain

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Mark Twain

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Mark Twain

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Mark Twain

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.