Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Carl Reiner

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Carl Sagan

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Benjamin Rush

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.

Bill Vaughan

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

Peter Capaldi

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

I think that there's things that are unknown, and the truth has to come out.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

Cheech Marin

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

Carl Jung

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Carl Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Ludwig von Mises

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.

Ludwig von Mises

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Lisa Vanderpump

I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.

Rene Russo

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Mary Leakey

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

William Shakespeare

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

Paul Hogan

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

Pete Rose

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

Larry Foote

Wild. Really wild, to tell you the truth.

Bertrand Russell

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Bertrand Russell

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.