Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Thomas Huxley

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Charles Lyell

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'

Bob Newhart

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Daymond John

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

David Hume

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

David Hume

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

David Hume

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

David Duchovny

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

Audre Lorde

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Antonin Artaud

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Denise Levertov

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder....

Denis Waitley

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Edward Snowden

Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.

Edward Everett

Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

Edgar Degas

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Eliza Farnham

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Bill O'Reilly

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Benjamin Jowett

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Bertrand Russell

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.