Famous Quotes & Sayings

In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.

I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.

J. D. Salinger

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

J. D. Salinger

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Ione Skye

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Isabel Allende

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

We should have scored on it, to tell you the truth. We just didn't get it in there.

John Cornyn

We are going to do a little truth-telling,

Paul Watson

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

THINGS are not so important; the transcendental truth of things is of value.

The Wine of Truth is not fermented from molasses.

Charlotte Bronte

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

Lykke Li

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

Kevin Costner

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Gerald R. Ford

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.