Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Carl Reiner

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Carl Sagan

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Benjamin Rush

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.

Bill Vaughan

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

Bertrand Russell

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Bertrand Russell

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Larry Foote

Wild. Really wild, to tell you the truth.

Jesse Ventura

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Jean de la Bruyere

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Ernst Toller

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Jeremy Collier

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Rene Russo

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

Mary Leakey

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

A.J. Burnett

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Agatha Christie

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Ludwig von Mises

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.

Ludwig von Mises

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.