Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Richard Hofstadter

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Richard Wilbur

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Richard Whately

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Rebecca West

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Richard Bach

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Victor Hugo

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Victor Hugo

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Vernon Howard

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....

Vernon Howard

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Richard Bach

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Robert Fulghum

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Robert Frost

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Rene Descartes

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Thornton Wilder

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thomas Paine

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

Thomas Paine

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Thomas Paine

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Huxley

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Thomas Huxley

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

Thomas Huxley

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Thomas Huxley

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Thomas Huxley

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

Thomas Huxley

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.