Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Smith, Jr.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Ken Wilber

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

Ken Wilber

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Ken Wilber

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

Kathy Freston

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

Julia Ward Howe

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Ken Kesey

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

Ken Kesey

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Ken Kesey

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Kris Kristofferson

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Isak Dinesen

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Iris Murdoch

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Ida Tarbell

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Gloria Steinem

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Giordano Bruno

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Giordano Bruno

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Harry S Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

J. L. Austin

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.

J. L. Austin

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

J. L. Austin

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

J. L. Austin

What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substanceor a qualityor a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.

H. L. Mencken

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

H. L. Mencken

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

George Herbert

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Georg Brandes

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?