Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

Darren Shan

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

David Mitchell

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

David Crosby

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

David Suzuki

It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

David Niven

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

Carl Sagan

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Byron Katie

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Camille Pissarro

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

C. P. Scott

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Cheri Huber

That which you seek, is causing you to seek.

Charlotte Lennox

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Charles Lamb

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Charlaine Harris

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Charles Simic

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

Charles Sanders Peirce

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Charles Sanders Peirce

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Charles Mackay

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

William Shakespeare

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Thomas Huxley

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

William Shakespeare

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

Bill Maher

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!