Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Van Dyke

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Jorge Luis Borges

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Jonathan Swift

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Kurt Cobain

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Khalil Gibran

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

Khalil Gibran

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Khalil Gibran

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

Khalil Gibran

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

Khalil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Naomi Wolf

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Napoleon Hill

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Livy

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lukas Foss

Truth is a big concept.

Lucy Stone

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

Louis Aragon

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Lord Byron

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Lord Chesterfield

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Lord Chesterfield

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

Lord Chesterfield

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.

Lord Chesterfield

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.