Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

George Berkeley

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

George Berkeley

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

George Burns

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

George Bernard Shaw

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth

George Bernard Shaw

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

George Bernard Shaw

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Gena Showalter

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Galileo Galilei

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Frederick William Robertson

It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth.

Frederick William Robertson

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

Frederick William Robertson

There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.

Franz Kafka

The truth is always an abyss.

Erica Jong

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

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.

I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.

J. D. Salinger

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

J. D. Salinger

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Ione Skye

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Peter Capaldi

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.