Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vladimir Lenin

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Walter Benjamin

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help....

Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Virginia Woolf

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

William Blake

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Error is created; truth is eternal.

William Blake

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

William Blake

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Werner Heisenberg

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

Werner Heisenberg

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Werner Herzog

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Samuel Richardson

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

William Allen White

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

Wilfred Owen

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Washington Allston

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Irving

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

Walter Lippmann

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippmann

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Walter Lippmann

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Voltaire

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Voltaire

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Voltaire

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.