Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sacrifice life to truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jeremy Collier

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

Jean Shepherd

The truth will always have a market.

Jean Rostand

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Jean Rostand

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

Jean Rostand

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Jean Rostand

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Jean Rostand

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Jean Vanier

I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.

Grover Cleveland

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Goodman Ace

I keep reading between the lies.

Gerald Massey

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

Harriet Martineau

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Harriet Martineau

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Hallie Ephron

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

Iain Banks

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Hugh Miller

No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.

Hugh Walpole

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hosea Ballou

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....

Horace

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

Horace

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Hannah Arendt

the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

Hannah Arendt

... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.