Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Hamilton

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Rene Russo

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

Mary Leakey

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

A.J. Burnett

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Agatha Christie

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Ludwig von Mises

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.

Ludwig von Mises

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Lisa Vanderpump

I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.

William Shakespeare

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

David Bohm

The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion)...

David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The truth does not need to be defended.

Blaise Pascal

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

To tell you the truth, I was upset.

Ian Snell

To tell you the truth, I have no idea. That's up to them. I'm just doing my job. Whatever they need me to do, I'll do it.

Casey Neistat

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

Isaac Stern

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

Dogen

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

Dogen

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Dogen

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

John Milton

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

Dan Simmons

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.