Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

Henry Ward Beecher

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Henry Ward Beecher

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Henry Ward Beecher

Truthfulness is godliness.

Helena Christensen

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Helen Thomas

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Tom Stoppard

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Tom Brokaw

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Toby Jones

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

Katherine Anne Porter

words can never get at the truth.

Miguel de Unamuno

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Miguel de Unamuno

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mary Renault

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Mary Baker Eddy

Truth has no beginning.

Marquis de Sade

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Marilyn Monroe

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything - a little bit.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Pearl S. Buck

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

John Tillotson

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.