Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

Samuel Johnson

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Samuel Johnson

Truth allows no choice.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

Robert Anton Wilson

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Rob Lowe

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

Ricky Jay

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

Richard M. Nixon

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Richard Rorty

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert Duvall

There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Umberto Eco

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Robinson Jeffers

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Vince Vaughn

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

Vince Lombardi

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Vince Lombardi

The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.

Vince Lombardi

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Samuel Johnson

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Samuel Johnson

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Rowan Williams

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Rodney Dangerfield

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

Robertson Davies

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Robert Penn Warren

For the truth is a terrible thing.