Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

George Herbert

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Jean de la Bruyere

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Jean Baudrillard

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost....

Jean Baudrillard

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Ernst Toller

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

Ernst Toller

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Gao Xingjian

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Frank O'Hara

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

George C. Scott

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

Gertrude Stein

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

Gordon B. Hinckley

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Giuseppe Mazzini

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

Geri Halliwell

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Gerard Butler

The truth is never pretty.

Herbie Hancock

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

Herbert Spencer

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Herman Melville

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Herman Melville

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

Herman Melville

All truth is profound.

Herman Melville

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Henry David Thoreau

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Henry David Thoreau

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

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

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Henry David Thoreau

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

Henry David Thoreau

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Henry David Thoreau

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

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

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?