Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

Octavia Butler

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

Emile Hirsch

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

Emilie Autumn

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Emile Zola

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Epictetus

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Epictetus

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

Epictetus

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Emily Dickinson

Truth - is as old as God - ...

Emily Dickinson

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

Ellis Peters

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Ellis Peters

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

Henri Poincare

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

Henri Poincare

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.

Henri Poincare

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Henri Poincare

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Henri Poincare

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Henrik Ibsen

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Henrik Ibsen

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Henri Matisse

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

Heywood Broun

For truth there is no deadline.

Heinrich Heine

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Henry Wotton

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Henry Wotton

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Henry Ward Beecher

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.