Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Emily Post

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Emanuel Swedenborg

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

Emanuel Swedenborg

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Elizabeth Fry

The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

John Burroughs

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Bunyan

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

Louis Agassiz

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Samuel Adams

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

T. S. Eliot

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Sydney J. Harris

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Susan Sontag

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Scott Westerfeld

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Adams

Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

Ray Nagin

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

Rajneesh

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Thomas Jefferson

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Thomas Jefferson

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead....

Thomas Jefferson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Umberto Eco

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Robinson Jeffers

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Robin Hobb

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert Redford

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Richard Paul Evans

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.