Famous Quotes & Sayings

I just want the truth told, you know, really what happened.

Neale Donald Walsch

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Jorge Luis Borges

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Jonathan Swift

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Khalil Gibran

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

Khalil Gibran

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

Khalil Gibran

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

Khalil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Naomi Wolf

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Napoleon Hill

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

George Armstrong Custer

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry B. Eyring

. . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.

Henry Adams

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry Adams

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.

Henry George

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry David Thoreau

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it..

Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.