Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Faulkner

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

Warren G. Bennis

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things.

Said Nursi

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

Said Nursi

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Saint Augustine

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Saint Augustine

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Saint Augustine

Truth is not private property.

Saint Augustine

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Xenophanes

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

W. Clement Stone

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. C. Fields

You can't cheat an honest man.

Yunus Emre

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow....

William Allen White

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

Wilfred Owen

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Washington Allston

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Irving

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

Walter Lippmann

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippmann

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Walter Lippmann

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Voltaire

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Voltaire

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Voltaire

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

William Sloane Coffin

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.