Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Kraus

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Karl Lagerfeld

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Otto von Bismarck

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Otto von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Kami Garcia

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

William Faulkner

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

William Faulkner

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

Warren G. Bennis

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things.

Said Nursi

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

Said Nursi

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Saint Augustine

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Saint Augustine

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Saint Augustine

Truth is not private property.

Saint Augustine

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Xenophanes

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

W. Clement Stone

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. C. Fields

You can't cheat an honest man.

Yunus Emre

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow....

Sara Gruen

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

Samuel Johnson

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Samuel Johnson

Truth allows no choice.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

William Holden

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

Will Smith

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.