Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Joseph Joubert

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Horace Mann

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

Horace Mann

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Horace Mann

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Horace Mann

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

Susan Howatch

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

Robert Browning

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves.

Robert Browning

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

John Calvin

All truth is God's truth.

John Astin

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

Johan Huizinga

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Johan Huizinga

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Johan Huizinga

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

Joan of Arc

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

Garry Kasparov

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

George Crabbe

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

Heywood Broun

For truth there is no deadline.

Heinrich Heine

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Henry Wotton

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Henry Wotton

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Henry Ward Beecher

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.