Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Wine of Truth is not fermented from molasses.

Charlotte Bronte

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

Lykke Li

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

Richard Wilbur

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Richard Whately

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Rebecca West

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Richard Bach

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Travis Walton

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Tristan Wilds

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is not afraid of questions.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Paul Lowe

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep truth is imageless.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

Paul Valery

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

Paul Westerberg

The truth is overrated.

Paul Weyrich

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

Pope Benedict XVI

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Pope John Paul II

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Pope John Paul II

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Pindar

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Pierre Corneille

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Pope Francis

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Peter Medawar

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Paulo Coelho

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.