Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Renault

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Mary Baker Eddy

Truth has no beginning.

Marquis de Sade

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Marilyn Monroe

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything - a little bit.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Nawal El Saadawi

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

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.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Any truth creates a scandal.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Miguel de Unamuno

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Miguel de Unamuno

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadia Boulanger

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Princess Diana

I am always going to be true to myself.

Publilius Syrus

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

Prem Rawat

Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved.... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you..."

Potter Stewart

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Leonardo da Vinci

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Paul Gauguin

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Patrick Rothfuss

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Laurence Fishburne

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Paul Cezanne

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

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 truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

Margaret Atwood

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?