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.

Joseph Addison

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

Samuel Johnson

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Winston Churchill

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Leslie Jamison

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

Victor Pinchuk

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.