Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pure truth is for God alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Gore Vidal

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Giambattista Vico

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Harold Prince

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

James E. Faust

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

James D'arcy

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Jamaica Kincaid

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

Gerald R. Ford

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Frank Herbert

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Guru Nanak

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Honore de Balzac

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Isak Dinesen

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Iris Murdoch

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Ida Tarbell

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Asimov

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Hugh Jackman

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Horace Walpole

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Mann

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.