Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Casals

Say things to the world that are true.

Plautus

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

Plato

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Plato

God is truth and light his shadow.

Plato

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Plato

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Plato

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

Paula Fox

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Paula Fox

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

Paula Cole

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

Phil McGraw

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Phil McGraw

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Kurt Cobain

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Khalil Gibran

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

Khalil Gibran

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Khalil Gibran

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

Khalil Gibran

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

Khalil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Naomi Wolf

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Napoleon Hill

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

Norman O. Brown

Truth is error burned up.

Orson Welles

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Oliver Tambo

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.