Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Philo

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

Pope John XXIII

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Nathaniel Branden

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

Victor Hugo

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Vernon Howard

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....

Vernon Howard

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Richard Bach

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Robert Fulghum

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Robert Frost

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Rene Descartes

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Thornton Wilder

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thomas Paine

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

Thomas Paine

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Thomas Paine

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Huxley

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Thomas Huxley

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

Thomas Huxley

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Thomas Huxley

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Thomas Huxley

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

Thomas Huxley

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Sowell

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Thomas Sowell

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

Walt Whitman

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

Roger Scruton

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Sara Gruen

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.