Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Dean Howells

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

Wendell Phillips

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

W. Somerset Maugham

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Vladimir Nabokov

Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.

William P. Young

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name...

William Penn

Naked Truth needs no shift.

William Penn

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

William Penn

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

William Penn

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

William Penn

The usefulest truths are the plainest.

William Penn

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Zig Ziglar

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.

Bob Woodward

I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to tell the truth.

Johnny Depp

I know, ... To tell you the truth, I've been worshiping it from afar.

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

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

Neale Donald Walsch

... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

Marcel Proust

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Marcel Proust

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

Marcel Proust

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

Marcel Proust

Truth is a point of view about things.

Joseph Addison

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.