Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Horace Mann

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Horace Mann

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

Horace Mann

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Horace Mann

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Horace Mann

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

Gloria Steinem

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Giordano Bruno

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Giordano Bruno

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Harry S Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

J. L. Austin

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.

J. L. Austin

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

J. L. Austin

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

J. L. Austin

What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substanceor a qualityor a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.

H. L. Mencken

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

H. L. Mencken

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

George Herbert

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Georg Brandes

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Sevyn Streeter

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hu Shih

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.