Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Michael Vick

No, I ain't mad. He didn't do anything wrong. The world will all know when the truth comes out.

Jeffrey Sachs

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

Jeff Gannon

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Galileo Galilei

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.

Ione Skye

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Ernst Toller

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

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

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

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

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.

Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

William Blake

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

Robertson Davies

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Saint Augustine

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

William Allen White

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

Walter Lippmann

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippmann

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Voltaire

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

William Butler Yeats

How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

Vince Lombardi

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Samuel Johnson

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Rowan Williams

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Wendell Phillips

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.