Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Ward Howe

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Ken Kesey

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

Ken Kesey

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Ken Kesey

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Kris Kristofferson

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Mark Twain

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Mark Twain

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mark Twain

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Mark Twain

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything - a little bit.

Nawal El Saadawi

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Margaret Atwood

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Marcus Thomas

Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.