Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Hugh Jackman

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Horace Walpole

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Mann

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

Horace Mann

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Horace Mann

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Horace Mann

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

Horace Mann

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Horace Mann

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Sevyn Streeter

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hu Shih

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

Honore de Balzac

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Harold Prince

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Harold Prince

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

James E. Faust

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

James D'arcy

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Jamaica Kincaid

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Asimov

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Patrick Henry

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Pat Cooper

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Julia Roberts

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

Julia Roberts

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Lisi Harrison

Truth is beauty

Leonardo da Vinci

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.