Famous Quotes & Sayings

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

George Herbert

All truths are not to be told.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Christian Bale

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Chris Hillman

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

George R. R. Martin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

George R. R. Martin

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Jean Cocteau

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period....

Frederick Douglass

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Felix Frankfurter

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

Fanny Kemble

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Francis Parker Yockey

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Francis Bacon

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Francis Bacon

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

Frances Wright

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Frances Wright

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Frances Wright

Truth is but approved facts.

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.