Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hirshfield

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Charles Fort

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

Charles Bukowski

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

Benjamin Franklin

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Arthur Eddington

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Arthur Balfour

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Arthur Balfour

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Barry White

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Baltasar Gracian

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Baltasar Gracian

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Baltasar Gracian

Truth is for the minority.

Baltasar Gracian

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Arianna Huffington

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Dean Koontz

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Dean Koontz

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Dean Koontz

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Daniel Ellsberg

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

Daniel Gilbert

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Daniel Handler

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Bob Dylan

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Billy Crudup

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Boris Pasternak

... the unarmed power of naked truth.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Bodhidharma

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

Brigham Young

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Antonio Machado

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

Antonio Porchia

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.