Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Paul Gauguin

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Patrick Rothfuss

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Laurence Fishburne

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

Nawal El Saadawi

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Nawal El Saadawi

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Any truth creates a scandal.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Miguel de Unamuno

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Miguel de Unamuno

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadia Boulanger

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Princess Diana

I am always going to be true to myself.

Publilius Syrus

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

Prem Rawat

Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved.... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you..."

Potter Stewart

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Nelson Mandela

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

Neil Young

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

Niccolo Machiavelli

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Noah Webster

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Noam Chomsky

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

Noam Chomsky

You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

Jodi Picoult

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Jodi Picoult

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

John Greenleaf Whittier

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.