Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Albert Einstein

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Alexander Haig

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adolf Hitler

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Adolf Hitler

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

The truth is the best propaganda.

Adolf Hitler

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Adolf Hitler

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

Adolf Hitler

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Noam Chomsky

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

Athol Fugard

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Tyler Hamilton

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Tyler Hamilton

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

A.J. Burnett

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

Amy Pascal

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

Ally Carter

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Allen Tate

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Alison Lurie

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Ann Coulter

The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

Aeschylus

The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Aeschylus

For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

Aeschylus

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.