Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Carl Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Bill O'Reilly

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Benjamin Jowett

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Bertrand Russell

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Charles Mackay

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Bill Maher

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

Bill Maher

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

Bessie Smith

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Cheech Marin

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

William Shakespeare

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

William Shakespeare

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Charles Lyell

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'

Bob Newhart

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Ed Koch

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

C. S. Lewis

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Al Gore

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

Charles Kingsley

Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

Charles Kingsley

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

Charles Kingsley

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Charles Churchill

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.

Charles Churchill

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

Blaise Pascal

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

Blaise Pascal

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Blaise Pascal

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Blaise Pascal

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Blaise Pascal

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.