Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Barry Long

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

Barry Long

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Barry Long

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

Barry Long

It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

C. S. Lewis

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Elizabeth Kenny

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Nancy Pelosi

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

Glenn Beck

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleister Crowley

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Albert Einstein

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Albert Einstein

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.

Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Alfred Korzybski

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.