Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Elizabeth I

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

William Shakespeare

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Annie Dillard

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

William Shakespeare

In jest, there is truth.

Emily Dickinson

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Helen Rowland

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Jean de la Bruyere

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

George Herbert

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Franz Kafka

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.