Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Eliot

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

George Eliot

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences

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.

I told them the truth and they thought it was a movie. Go figure. I'm just doing my job.

There is no truth whatever in these allegations.

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.

Ernst Toller

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Ernst Toller

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Cassandra Clare

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Frank Herbert

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Guru Nanak

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Jesse Ventura

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

George Herbert

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Jean de la Bruyere

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean de la Bruyere

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Jean Baudrillard

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost....

Jean Baudrillard

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Joseph Joubert

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.