Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Fuller

Truth is the first of jewels.

Kin Hubbard

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Ravi Zacharias

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Randy Quaid

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

Eric Hoffer

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Enid Bagnold

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

James F. Cooper

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry B. Eyring

. . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.

Henry Adams

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry Adams

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.

Henry George

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry David Thoreau

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Pablo Casals

Say things to the world that are true.

Plautus

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

Plato

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Plato

God is truth and light his shadow.

Plato

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Plato

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Plato

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

Paula Fox

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Paula Fox

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

Paula Cole

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

Phil McGraw

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Phil McGraw

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.