Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Farrar Capon

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Stephen Crane

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

Tryon Edwards

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Sophocles

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Sophocles

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Truth is always straightforward.

Sophocles

The truth is ever best.

Sophocles

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Stephen King

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.

Thomas Mann

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Merton

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Thomas Carlyle

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Thomas Carlyle

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Thomas Carlyle

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Thomas Carlyle

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Steve Martin

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Spencer Johnson

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Sigmund Freud

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Serj Tankian

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

Pope John Paul II

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Pope John Paul II

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Pindar

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Pierre Corneille

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Keith Green

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Tennessee Williams

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

James Madison

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Soren Kierkegaard

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.