Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

Bessie Smith

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Cheech Marin

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

Charles Lyell

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'

William Shakespeare

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

William Shakespeare

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Bill O'Reilly

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Benjamin Jowett

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Bertrand Russell

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Johnny Depp

I know, ... To tell you the truth, I've been worshiping it from afar.

I just want the truth told, you know, really what happened.

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Arlen Specter

I want to know what the truth is,

I want to know the truth. The truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

The truth should not offend, it should only inconvenience.

Kevin Connolly

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

Nick Hardwick

I still don't know the truth of what happened. When I know what happened, I'll tell the public.

Berthold Auerbach

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

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.

Bob Woodward

I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to tell the truth.