Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

The truth is we're being selfish. We're getting more out of this than they are.

The truth is the truth, and it doesn't change.

Kent Conrad

The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.

The truth is that these are not unusual.

Peter Capaldi

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

The truth is, it happened...just like she told all those people.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

Gore Vidal

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Dan Jenkins

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

Eric Hoffer

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Enid Bagnold

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

Mickey Rooney

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let there be truth between us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must keep repeating the Truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.