Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Sowell

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Thomas Sowell

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

S. E. Hinton

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Russell M. Nelson

Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside.

Ronald Knox

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

Rumi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Roy H. Williams

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Vince Lombardi

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Vince Lombardi

The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.

Vince Lombardi

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Samuel Johnson

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Samuel Johnson

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Rowan Williams

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Rodney Dangerfield

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

Robertson Davies

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Robert Penn Warren

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Robert M. Pirsig

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

Robert M. Pirsig

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.