Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Alexander Pope

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

E. Howard Hunt

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. P. Thompson

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

Donald Trump

The truth is, the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants or however many there may be - and honestly we've been hearing that number for years. It's always 11 million. Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million. It could be 30 million. They have no idea what the number is.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Claude Bernard

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Dalai Lama

On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

Dalai Lama

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

Dolly Parton

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

Diogenes

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

Dick Morris

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

David Mamet

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Dan Simmons

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

Cynthia Ozick

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

Cyril Connolly

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Cornel West

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Cormac McCarthy

The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

Cormac McCarthy

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

David Hare

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hawkins

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

Dan Brown

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Confucius

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

Confucius

The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Confucius

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Daniel Webster

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Dalton Trumbo

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

David Bohm

The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion)...

David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.