Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Blaise Pascal

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Blaise Pascal

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

Blaise Pascal

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Blaise Pascal

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Blaise Pascal

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Eckhart Tolle

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

Eckhart Tolle

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Edward R. Murrow

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Edward R. Murrow

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Babe Paley

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Baruch Spinoza

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

Berthold Auerbach

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Brenda Ueland

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

Brenda Ueland

Be bold, free, and truthful.

Jane Hirshfield

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.