Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Foreman

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

Jon Foreman

Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.

Luigi Pirandello

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Luc de Clapiers

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Luc de Clapiers

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Niels Bohr

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Nicole Krauss

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Nicole Kidman

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Nicole Kidman

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

Johnny Isakson

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

John Woolman

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

Mickey Rooney

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

The truth is we're being selfish. We're getting more out of this than they are.

The truth is the truth, and it doesn't change.

Kent Conrad

The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.

The truth is that these are not unusual.

Peter Capaldi

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

The truth is, it happened...just like she told all those people.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

Gore Vidal

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Dan Jenkins

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

Mortimer Adler

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Philip Sidney

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.