Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

Benjamin Franklin

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Benjamin Franklin

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Arthur Eddington

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Arthur Balfour

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Arthur Balfour

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Barry White

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Baltasar Gracian

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Baltasar Gracian

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Baltasar Gracian

Truth is for the minority.

Baltasar Gracian

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Arianna Huffington

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Dean Koontz

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Dean Koontz

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Dean Koontz

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Daniel Ellsberg

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

Daniel Gilbert

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Daniel Handler

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

Charles Fort

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.