Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

O. Henry

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

Octavia Butler

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

Emile Hirsch

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

Emilie Autumn

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Emile Zola

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Epictetus

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Epictetus

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

Epictetus

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Emily Dickinson

Truth - is as old as God - ...

Emily Dickinson

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

Ellis Peters

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Ellis Peters

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Sinead O'Connor

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

Simone de Beauvoir

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone Weil

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Simone Weil

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

Simone Weil

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Simone Weil

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Simon Greenleaf

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

Rick Riordan

Does truth have a moral?

Tinashe

There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's more enslaved now then the ones who falsely feel they are free. I've come to terms with the fact that nothing is what it seems. This life is an illusion. And everything you thought you knew isn't what it seems. Only truth will set you free. This new world has begun.

Thucydides

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Robert A. Heinlein

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Thomas Wilson

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.