Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Santayana

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

George McGovern

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

George Orwell

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

G. Stanley Hall

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

G. M. Trevelyan

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow.

Eminem

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Jasper Johns

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pure truth is for God alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Gore Vidal

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Giambattista Vico

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Harold Prince

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Harold Prince

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

James E. Faust

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

James D'arcy

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Cassandra Clare

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.