Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

Henry David Thoreau

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always paradoxical.

Henry David Thoreau

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Henry David Thoreau

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

H. L. Mencken

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

H. L. Mencken

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jeremy Collier

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

Esther Hicks

Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Erwin Chargaff

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Flora Lewis

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Flannery O'Connor

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Flannery O'Connor

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Ferran Adria

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Cassandra Clare

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pure truth is for God alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.