Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Benjamin Disraeli

I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Elbert Hubbard

Live truth instead of professing it.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Roger Taylor

No sir, I don't think she's a truthful woman at all.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Joshua Bell

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

There is no truth whatever in these allegations.

Gertrude Stein

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

Gordon B. Hinckley

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Giuseppe Mazzini

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

Geri Halliwell

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Gerard Butler

The truth is never pretty.

Herbie Hancock

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

Herbert Spencer

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Herman Melville

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Herman Melville

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

Herman Melville

All truth is profound.

Herman Melville

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Henry David Thoreau

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Henry David Thoreau

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.